Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons employed in his Department that have a formal agreement to work from home one day per week, two days per week and five days per week; his Department’s policy in respect of facilitating requests by persons to work from home; and the number of persons that have made requests to work from home in 2021 and to date in 2022, that have been declined. [44585/22]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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A Blended Working Policy for Staff in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was published on 31 August 2022. This Blended Working Policy provides for staff to apply to work remotely for up to 2 days per week. There is no provision in the policy for remote working on a 5 day per week basis.

The communication with this policy explained to staff that applications for blended working arrangements would be accepted from Monday 5 September 2022. To date (13.09.2022) 40 members of staff submitted applications. 11 staff have had their applications approved, 28 staff have applications pending approval and 1 member of staff has cancelled their application.