Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 May 2023
370. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff, both directly employed and contracted, to carry out repair work, categorised as housing maintenance, within each respective local authority, for the year 2022, in tabular form. [25694/23]
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 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 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.
