Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the options available to a civil servant who, due to long-term health issues, is no longer able to travel long distances to work and requires a transfer to an office closer to home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8889/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Civil Service has sick leave arrangements in place for staff who are unable to attend work due to illness or injury. 

Under the Public Service Agreements covering the period 2010-16, Redeployment generally takes precedence over all other methods of filling a vacancy.  The detailed arrangements agreed with the staff unions, set out in a "Redeployment Toolkit" available on the Department's website at , supersede any existing agreements on the deployment of staff. Staff may be moved to another organisation or location through these arrangements but they have not been designed to facilitate requests from individuals for transfers to address personal circumstances and are not used for that purpose. At a practical level, it is considered unlikely to be possible to agree on criteria to rank or choose among all the possible bases for granting priority of assignment to posts in other locations, which would be a prerequisite for the fair implementation of such an approach.