Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 April 2023
267. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of construction technical professionals, including architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, and so on, employed by each local authority to perform functions such as overseeing construction projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18724/23]
View answerUnder 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/she is responsible. My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of overall 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.
However, granular data, in terms of the detailed breakdown of the numbers and grades of the overall number of staff allocated to specific work areas within local authorities is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from each local authority.
