Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1143. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [17772/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that currently there are 112 (or 2.8%) of my Department's staff absent on sick leave. Of these, four are absent citing stress.

The number of staff who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years and to date in 2023 is set out in the table below. Please note that the number of staff who took sick leave citing stress are included in the overall number of staff taking sick leave in each year. Also, absences citing stress include work related and non-work related stress.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1144. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of allegations of bullying made by departmental staff against departmental staff in each of the past five years, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will detail what actions are being taken by his Department to investigate the allegations, or if they are being investigated. [17790/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Civil Service is committed to protecting dignity and respect across the organisation and my Department implements the Civil Service wide anti-bullying, harassment and sexual harassment policy ‘Dignity at Work’. I am satisfied that the policy is being implemented effectively throughout my Department.

From time to time staff have raised a variety of issues regarding workplace difficulties. All issues raised are carefully considered under the Dignity at Work policy.

Since 2018, six cases of alleged workplace difficulties have been received by Human Resources. Of these six cases, two cases were forwarded for formal independent investigation based on the criteria for bullying as defined in the Dignity at Work policy. One of those investigations is still ongoing. The result of the other was that the allegations were not upheld.

The table below lists the number of complaints of alleged bullying received by my Department from 2018 to present:

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Departmental staff dismissed in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [17808/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the number of staff of my Department who were dismissed in each of the past 10 years and to date, is set out in the table below. These figures also include staff who were dismissed during their probationary period.