Dáil debates

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions

Bullying in the Workplace

10:50 am

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am concerned that the data are not held centrally. What unit in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is in charge of ensuring the dignity at work policies are implemented and made known in each Department? I tabled a parliamentary question to each Minister about the level of complaints within his or her respective Department, although my question to the Minister may have been worded differently. There have been 89 complaints since 2011, eight of which were upheld. During that period there were two complaints made in the Department of Health, 51 in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and 18 in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. As Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, can the Minister stand over the consistency of implementation of the dignity at work policy in each Department and indicate who in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is driving this policy and ensuring it is being implemented across Departments such that, regardless of in what Department a civil servant is working, he knows that can stand over this process?

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