Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 339: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person requiring a transfer within the Civil Service will have their chances affected by having 56 genuine certified sick days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39608/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The provisions governing transfers and sick leave within the Civil Service are prescribed by the Department of Finance.

Transfers are subject to an assessment of the sick leave and performance records of staff. Sick leave is assessed on the basis of a limit of no more than 56 days sick leave and no more than 25 sick absences in the previous 4 years.

The only exception to this is in respect of those staff who will have to be placed in alternative employments in Dublin arising from the decentralisation programme for whom no sick leave assessment is required.