Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 July 2023
648. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of directly employed maintenance and refurbishment staff in each local authority; and if his Department has a policy in respect of employment and contracting of same. [36824/23]
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 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 specific role and function of each individual staff member is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from individual local authorities.
