Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 318: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of civil servants in his 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [10594/08]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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No Civil Servants in my Department have attended specific stress management courses during the period 2005 to 2007. A major training programme for all staff in my Department, which concluded in early 2005, covered stress management in a changing environment with particular reference to decentralisation. While no stress reduction procedures were put in place in my Department arising from such training the course was useful in raising awareness of stress and in assisting management to deal sensitively with the extensive turnover of staff necessary to effect the decentralisation of my Department to Killarney.