Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 329: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department encourages the operation of part-time summer period employment, particularly with the availability of students, in all local authorities; if his attention has been drawn to the local authorities which operate such a scheme; and if restrictions on recruitment apply to the operation of these schemes. [20167/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The employment of staff is a matter for each local authority. It is open to the authorities to provide short-term summer employment for students. Such employment could meet relevant requirements of the local government sector, as well as offering work experience of benefit to the students concerned. The cost of any such summer employment is met from the individual authorities' own resources and from other income received including general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund.

Specific information on short-time summer employment for students in each local authority is not collated in my Department.