Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 11 May 2023
213. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of staff employed in local authority housing departments, the number of staff full-time equivalents employed at each grade; the average cost per grade and the total expenditure on housing department staff estimated for 2023. [22277/23]
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 and the associated salary costs is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from each local authority.
