Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 305: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of the number of civil servants in her Department who are currently e-working; her plans to increase the number of civil servants availing of e-working; if she will provide details of the numbers of civil servants she would hope to have e-working by end 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38199/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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My Department does not have a formal e-working policy in place at present. However, IT supports (such as laptops, remote log-on, mobile phones etc) are available to staff when remote access is required. This has been used to good effect over the past number of years including informal arrangements whereby a staff member and their manager agree that a particular specific item of work could best be completed by a defined and short period of e-working from home.

While I consider that these informal arrangements continue to work well, the potential of more formalised e-working arrangements will be considered as part of a new HR strategy for my Department which is currently under development.