asked the Minister for the Environment the number of construction workers and roadworkers currently employed by each local authority at the end of 1979 or to the latest available date.
Written Answers. - Local Authority Road and Construction Workers.
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The reply, in so far as the information is available in my Department, is in the form of a tabular statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
|
Local Authority |
Number of Construction Workers employed at 31 December 1979 |
Number of Roadworkers employed on public roads at 31 December 1979 |
|
Carlow County Council |
22 |
164 |
|
Cavan County Council |
56 |
243 |
|
Clare County Council |
100 |
564 |
|
Cork County Council |
398 |
1,220 |
|
Donegal County Council |
438 |
662 |
|
Dublin County Council |
818 |
712 |
|
Galway County Council |
226 |
594 |
|
Kerry County Council |
397 |
519 |
|
Kildare County Council |
117 |
222 |
|
Kilkenny County Council |
162 |
279 |
|
Laois County Council |
184 |
280 |
|
Leitrim County Council |
101 |
137 |
|
Limerick County Council |
253 |
482 |
|
Longford County Council |
46 |
176 |
|
Louth County Council |
40 |
184 |
|
Mayo County Council |
357 |
484 |
|
Meath County Council |
158 |
385 |
|
Monaghan County Council |
84 |
322 |
|
Offaly County Council |
70 |
192 |
|
Roscommon County Council |
190 |
346 |
|
Sligo County Council |
37 |
139 |
|
Tipperary (N.R.) County Council |
98 |
339 |
|
Tipperary (S.R.) County Council |
96 |
370 |
|
Waterford County Council |
64 |
254 |
|
Westmeath County Council |
84 |
247 |
|
Wexford County Council |
166 |
334 |
|
Wicklow County Council |
146 |
293 |
|
Cork County Borough Corporation |
339 |
159 |
|
Dublin County Borough Corporation |
1,900 |
745 |
|
Limerick County Borough Corporation |
289 |
66 |
|
Waterford County Borough Corporation |
136 |
30 |
Notes:
(a) Separate figures for the number of construction workers employed directly by local authorities are not available in the Department. The above figures, which are based on local authority returns, include both local authority and contractors' employees engaged on housing construction, water supply and sewerage schemes and miscellaneous environmental schemes (fire stations and civic office construction and so on).
(b) The figures given relate only to the larger local authorities. As regards non-county borough corporations, urban district councils, town commissioners, and so on, the number of construction workers employed at 31 December 1979 was 1,266 and the number of roadworkers was estimated at 303.
(c) The figures given for road workers relate to employment on public roads. Under the Local Improvements Scheme, work is also carried out on non-public roads (as well as minor drainage schemes). It is estimated that at 31 December 1979 853 workers were employed by county councils under the scheme.