David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----when we will have the staff from Revenue and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government here? That is fine.

I gave prior notice that I would raise this with Mr. McKeon. He talked about his staff working hard, and no doubt they do, and I pass on my appreciation for the work his staff does. This morning, under our correspondence, we received a breakdown, at our request, of Civil Service sick leave statistics for 2017 and statistics that show lost time rates in percentage terms. Mr. McKeon's Department has one of the highest recorded average working days lost, a full-time equivalent of 13 days, which is two and a half weeks per year. The average across the Civil Service is 10.1 days. In percentage terms of lost time, his Department is at 5.7%, as opposed to the Civil Service average of 4.4%. Can he account for why it is so high, at 13 days per full-time equivalent?