Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of a €10 per day allowance for public sector workers working from home in circumstances (details supplied) in tabular form. [33716/21]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform does not have data on the specific work locations of public servants. However, many staff involved in delivering key services to the public in sectors such as Health, Education, An Garda Síochána, Defence and Prisons are not primarily office based. Providing an allowance of this nature to administrative staff who are not attending the workplace may have broader consequential implications and costs for other groups.

The table below takes the Civil Service as an example in order to provide an estimate of the cost of providing a working from home allowance of €10 per day. These estimates are based on full time equivalent (FTE) staff numbers of 42,715 at Q4 2020 and assume that all Civil Servants are office workers with a working year of 47 weeks net of annual leave and an employer PRSI rate of 7.8%.