Rose Conway-Walsh
Question:429. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of providing one additional procurement officer for each local authority. [35186/23]
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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/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; procurement officers could potentially be at a number of different grade levels depending on the specific local authority needs identified by the Chief Executive. The relevant information would be available from the local authorities concerned.