Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 20 Jun 1996

Vol. 467 No. 3

Written Answers. - Local Authority Employment.

Kathleen Lynch

Ceist:

80 Kathleen Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment the number of persons employed by each local authority in each of the years from 1990 to 1996. [13150/96]

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Howlin)

Based on returns supplied to my Department, the number of persons employed by each local authority at 31 December each year from 1990 to 1995 is set out in the following table.

	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
County Councils
Carlow	243	244	227	225	219	235
Cavan	391	395	412	398	405	406
Clare	662	677	674	675	670	704
Cork	2,143	2,120	2,133	2,177	2,151	2,150
Donegal	827	830	873	830	828	838
Dublin	2,949	2,989	2,965
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown				1,260	1,192	1,247.5
Fingal				1,171	1,185	1,183.5
Galway	916	933	900	904	912	899
Kerry	858	862	885	919	903	919
Kildare	648	672	734	777	750	704
Kilkenny	462	460	455	457	464	580
Laois	328	340	344	359	352	362
Leitrim	259	249	255	246	247	271
Limerick	827	828	799	817	811	787
Longford	242	238	229	216	211	209
Louth	258	263	277	273	257	263
Mayo	944	944	923	920	923	906
Meath	481	512	477	488	486	478
Monaghan	285	294	302	309	296	296
Offaly	349	346	354	347	334	338
Roscommon	549	547	533	529	512	521
Sligo	334	329	331	370	348	357
South Dublin				1,087	1,078	1,167
Tipperary N.R.	439	462	473	508	447	451
Tipperary S.R.	562	524	509	505	503	488
Waterford	431	445	443	478	451	452
Westmeath	371	362	388	400	354	347
Wexford	562	558	560	551	555	561
Wicklow	544	526	545	554	538	556
County Borough Corporations
Cork	1,263	1,245	1,245	1,283	1,317	1,324
Dublin	6,629	6,650	6,695	6,420	6,421	6,345
Galway	297	287	285	292	283	295
Limerick	630	627	603	585	580	586
Waterford	294	290	293	293	293	294
Borough Corporations
Clonmel	78	95	92	74	91	92
Drogheda	173	177	176	176	178	184
Dún Laoghaire	513	505	512
Kilkenny	85	85	85	88	97	92
Sligo	83	85	94	97	102	101
Wexford	76	76	79	88	94	100
Urban District Councils
Arklow	40	40	40	40	40	42
Athlone	70	72	72	70	68	70
Athy	22	20	20	20	22	23
Ballina	38	34	32	34	33	34
Ballinasloe	39	40	40	40	41	37
Birr	22	21	21	20	19	19
Bray	101	105	104	87	84	81
Buncrana	12	15	17	17	16	17
Bundoran	10	11	11	10	12	12
Carlow	54	51	51	52	52	52
Carrickmacross	13	11	11	8	12	12
Carrick-on-Suir	30	29	28	28	28	25
Cashel	12	12	12	12	14	14
Castlebar	35	36	32	33	32	33
Castleblayney	13	13	13	13	13	13
Cavan	16	16	18	18	19	18
Kells	10	11	10	10	10	10
Clonakilty	7	7	8	7	8	8
Clones	10	10	10	10	11	11
Cobh	19	19	20	19	19	20
Dundalk	203	199	205	208	208	210
Dungarvan	31	33	38	40	40	41
Ennis	47	47	51	52	52	55
Eniscorthy	26	27	32	33	32	32
Fermoy	34	25	29	21	24	38
Killarney	42	44	43	44	43	42
Kilrush	7	7	9	7	9	8
Kinsale	12	10	9	11	13	9
Letterkenny	31	44	44	44	47	47
Listowel	25	24	24	23	25	25
Longford	28	28	30	34	33	33
Macroom	13	12	13	13	12	13
Mallow	38	38	37	38	37	37
Midleton	15	14	14	19	17	17
Monaghan	36	39	42	42	43	46
Naas	30	29	29	29	29	32
Navan	23	23	23	22	22	23
Nenagh	20	20	22	23	27	28
New Ross	31	31	31	32	31	32
Skibbereen	8	8	7	8	8	8
Templemore	7	10	10	10	10	9
Thurles	35	34	36	36	35	35
Tipperary	25	27	27	26	27	27
Tralee	101	101	95	99	106	108
Trim	11	11	12	12	12	12
Tullamore	41	46	46	46	48	45
Westport	29	28	29	28	26	27
Wicklow	34	34	35	35	35	33
Youghal	24	24	23	24	26	25
All Other Local Authorities(i.e. Town Commissioners, Joint Drainage Committees, Joint Burial Boards, Joint Library Committees)	161	162	163	135	139	137

Note: The above figures include all persons in officer and non-officer grades, whole-time and part-time, permanent and temporary.