Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 275: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the estimated cost of paying the draft national pay agreement to those who are paid from his Department's budget; if he will provide a breakdown of these figures which include both current spending on pay and predicted moneys spent on pay under the new agreement under headings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39167/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The estimated cost of the 3.5% pay increase with effect from 1 September 2009, arising under the recently negotiated second pay agreement under Towards 2016, is €80m in 2009 and €240m in a full year.

The following Table gives a breakdown of the costs requested by the Deputy.

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 276: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the systems his Department has in place for tracking absences from work for various reasons, for benchmarking them against best standards and for estimating the cost of cover or lost input as a result of these absences; and if he will present data for the most recent years on this matter. [39174/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The attendance/absence of officials at my Department is recorded on a Human Resources Management System (HRMS) database.

A similar parliamentary question was tabled recently by one of the Deputy's colleagues and I have requested officials at the Personnel Unit of my Department to compile information on absenteeism for the last five years as sought by that Deputy and forward it to him in due course.

I will also arrange for the Deputy to be provided with a copy of this data when it has been completed.