Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 May 2023
329. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will list each local authority which currently employs an Arts officer; the annual salary of each officer; and the portion of the salary and the office’s operations funded by the Arts Council, by the local authority directly, or by a third source of funding. [23843/23]
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 or 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 staff allocated to specific work areas within local authorities and the associated salaries is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department.
The relevant information would be available from each local authority.
