Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 842: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of engineers currently employed in Kildare County Council; their respective responsibilities; the number of staff available to the county engineer; if he is satisfied that adequate resources are available to undertake the evolving responsibilities in this busy and developing region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22788/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The number of engineers employed in Kildare County Council at 31 December 2004, as supplied to my Department by the council, is as follows:

The former grade of county engineer in Kildare County Council has been subsumed into the new local authority management structure created under Better Local Government at director of services level. Each county and city manager is responsible for making such staffing and organisational arrangements as are necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible.