Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 January 2022
604. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of public sector workers under his remit by sectors (details supplied) in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2351/22]
View answer605. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of public sector workers under his remit in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form under headings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2371/22]
View answer606. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of public sector workers under his remit in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form under headings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2389/22]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 604, 605 and 606 together.
Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he or she is responsible.
My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this end, my Department gathers aggregate quarterly data on staff numbers in each local authority on a whole time equivalent basis.
Staffing numbers for the local authority sector are available on the Public Service Numbers databank, which is hosted and maintained by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and is available at the following link:
http://databank.per.gov.ie/Public_Service_Numbers.aspx?rep=LA
However granular data, in terms of the number of local government employees in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department.
Staff numbers for non-commercial State bodies under the aegis of my Department are also available on the aforementioned Public Service Numbers databank. However, granular data in terms of the number of non-commercial State body employees in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare are similarly not collected and, consequently, are not available in my Department.
