Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Question:84. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of hiring a qualified archaeologist for every local authority. [4474/24]
View answerWednesday, 31 January 2024
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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 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. Information as to the number ofrchaeologists currently employed would be available from individual local authorities.
The salary scale for an archaeologist in the local government sector ranges from €55,519 to €77,176.