Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

Employee Numbers at 1st January of each year. The annual Departmental employee numbers to reflect staff directly employed and active (full-time or part-time) in the Department during the relevant years (not persons on career breaks in excess of one year or staff working in organisations under the aegis of your Department). As it is recognised that there may be difficulty in identification of precise numbers a margin of error of (+/-) 5% is acceptable. Any formal Policy Document (and revisions of same if applicable) on the provision of customised, specialised or medically-requested office seating or chairs (generally termed as ‘ergonomic’, ‘orthopaedic’ or ‘spinal’ chairs – for brevity these will be identified below as ‘ergonomic chairs’) for the use of individual members of staff to suit their particular physical seating requirements. If no formal Policy Document has been produced, please provide a description of how such applications or requests for ‘ergonomic’ chairs are evaluated in the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. Any or all related Procedures documents for the period 2011-2016 indicating how applications and/or requests for ‘ergonomic’ chairs are implemented in the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. The F.O.I. response to include relevant records for the period (numbers of applications and requests per individual year, numbers of ‘ergonomic’ chairs provided per year and individual unit costs i.e. individual chair costs).