Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant posts in local authorities, in tabular form per department. [8105/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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, data on the number of vacant posts is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from individual local authorities.