Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 December 2012
428. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the members of the Local Government Workforce Planning Group; the terms of reference of the group; the dates of meetings of the Group since it was established; the funding that is provided for the group; the source of the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56361/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Workforce Planning Group was made up as follows:
Barry Quinlan: Principal Officer, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
Daniel McLoughlin: Manager – Westmeath County Council
Hubert Kearns: Manager – Sligo County Council
Conn Murray: Manager – Limerick City and County Council.
Peter Caulfield: Director of Service – Fingal County Council.
Frank Curran: Director of Service – Waterford County Council.
Mary Pyne: Assistant Manager – Dublin City Council.
John Flynn: Director of Service – Kerry County Council.
Paul Dunne: Local Government Management Agency.
The Terms of Reference for the Group’s work were as follows:
-How the recommendations contained in the Local Government Efficiency Review report with particular reference to senior and middle management might be addressed.
-The impact on local authorities of the staff recruitment moratorium, the incentivised early retirement scheme and the Employment Control Framework.
-The current and short-term workforce demographics in the context of maintaining a workforce equipped to meet on-going organisational and sectoral requirements including succession planning.
-There was no direct funding for the Group which was supported in terms of data gathering and analysis by the local government Programme Management Office for Reform and the Local Government Management Agency.
The Group met regularly between October 2011 and October 2012. The Workforce Planning Study is available on my Department’s website.
