Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 October 2022
297. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of authorised officers under section 11 of the Building Control Act 1990 who are currently employed, by local authority, confirming the number expressed as full-time equivalents in tabular form. [52815/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraUnder 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 detailed breakdown of the local authorities which might have numbers employed at this grade (building control officers) is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from individual local authorities.
