Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13552/20]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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In March of this year my department produced the document, DPER principles for remote working during the COVID-19 Crisis, which contains key principles for the large number of staff of the department that have been provided with remote working facilities as part of our response to COVID-19.

Since then, my department has developed guidelines for civil service organisations (Working from Home during COVID-19 – Guidance for Civil Service Organisations), which is intended to assist civil service organisations as long as necessary to address the health and safety risks of COVID-19.  These guidelines have issued recently.

My department has also commenced work on the development of a remote working policy which will address remote working in the longer term for the civil service.