Sick leave costs among local authority workers

Summary

Brady questioned cost efficiency after citing extensive sick leave among local authority manual workers. The Minister said he could not comment on certified illnesses without casting doubt on medical professionals.

Gerard Brady Mr. G. Brady Fianna Fáil

With regard to cost efficiency, is the Minister of State aware that in one year 5,000 manual workers within a senior local authority lost in sick pay 320 years when 21,000 medical certificates were issued? How can he regard that as cost efficiency?

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Fergus O'Brien Mr. F. O'Brien Fine Gael

I cannot comment on that, as the Deputy is aware. If medical certificates are received on behalf of workers who are ill, it is not for me to comment. We would be casting a reflection on the professionalism of the people who write these certificates.

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