Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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150. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department on sick leave between March and September by month in 2019 and to date 2020; the pay arrangements that exist for staff on sick leave for an extended period of time; the number of sick days accounted for by his Department over the period. [28943/20]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department takes an active approach to managing sick leave consistent with the relevant Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sick leave circulars. These also set out the sick leave entitlements of staff across the Civil Service including various limits which apply.

The most recent validated sick leave statistics for my Department relate to 2018.My Department's Lost Time Rate for 2018 was 2.09% and the average number of working days lost per WTE in my Department in 2018 was 4.78 days. This compares favourably to the Civil Service averages for 2018 which reflected a civil service average rate of 4.4% Lost Time Rate and 10 working days lost per WTE.

The details requested by the Deputy in respect of 2019 and 2020 are set out in the table below. It should be noted that these figures have been provided by the National Shared Service Office and will not be fully validated until later this year.