Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of civil servants in her Department who have attended courses on stress management in the workplace between 2005 and 2007; if stress reduction procedures have been put in place arising from attendance at such courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10602/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Between 2005 and 2007 the Department of Health and Children held two training courses on stress management. A total of 13 officers attended these sessions. The Department has a number of strategies in place that assists and supports staff in managing and reducing stress. Such strategies include: effective personal and management development; skills training (including the provision of training in Mental Health issues in 2008); effective mobility policy supporting work life balance (the Department of Health and Children operates a range of work sharing patterns for our staff); the employee assistance programme to support staff under stress.