Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 310: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the growing practice of retiring or resigning senior county council officials taking up employment with or offering consultancy services to the building industry with whom they dealt with in their previous positions; his views on the potential for conflict of interest involved in this practice; the action he will take to regulate such practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31206/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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A code of conduct for employees of local authorities was published in June 2004 under Part 15 of the Local Government Act 2001 and it is an integral part of the ethical framework for the local government service. The code includes disclosure requirements concerning employment outside the local government sector and addresses situations concerning a conflict of personal and public interest.

The implementation of the code is being kept under review in light of experience since its introduction and as part of an assessment of the effectiveness of the regime; this assessment will also consider the acceptance by local authority employees of outside appointments and of consultancy engagements following resignation or retirement.