Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy has raised a number of issues, which I will try to deal with sequentially as I did with Deputy Fleming.

I do not have numbers. I have a table with costings on a sectoral basis which I will provide to the Deputy. The last full year for which sick leave statistics have been gathered is 2012. I have before me a table which sets out the reporting of sick leave or absenteeism over that year. I will give the Deputy the cost in millions of euro in each sector.

For the Civil Service the figure is €5.3 million for the self-certified. The certified figure is €47.7 making a total of €53 million. The percentage of days lost as a total of the total Civil Service is 4.6%.

In Defence, the self-certified figure is €1.1 million. It is an interesting point that Defence has a much lower level of absenteeism.

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