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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2002

Vol. 547 No. 1

Written Answers. - Local Authority Staff.

Emmet Stagg

Ceist:

751 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the agreed staffing levels for each local authority under the Better Local Government Provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1686/02]

Emmet Stagg

Ceist:

752 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the total workforce of each local authority as at 1 January 2002. [1687/02]

Emmet Stagg

Ceist:

755 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if the needs and resources model was used in allocating staffing increases for each local authority for 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1692/02]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 751, 752 and 755 together.

The impact of the Better Local Government provisions on the staffing levels of each local authority will not be identifiable until the staffing returns for staff employed as on 1 January 2002 are received from the local authorities later this year.

The total workforce, in each local authority, expressed in whole-time equivalents, as at 1 January 2001, the latest figures available in my Department based on the annual staffing returns submitted by the local authorities, is set out in the following table:
The needs and resources model is a financial model which is used in determining the allocation of funding to individual local authorities. It has no relevance to the consideration of applications for sanction to increased staffing levels.

Number

County Councils

Carlow

272

Cavan

353

Clare

791

Cork

2,132

Donegal

880

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

1,226

Fingal

1,274

Galway

847

Kerry

1,173

Kildare

753

Kilkenny

517

Laois

383

Leitrim

251

Limerick

713

Longford

242

Louth

615

Mayo

1,038

Meath

602

Monaghan

365

Offaly

396

Roscommon

460

Sligo

473

South Dublin

1,209

Tipperary (NR)

486

Tipperary (SR)

612

Waterford

478

Westmeath

438

Wexford

703

Wicklow

633

City Councils

Cork

1,300

Dublin

6,113

Galway

523

Limerick

526

Waterford

308

Total

29,085

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