Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff in a local authority (details supplied); the staff numbers from 2008 to 2020, in tabular form. [25434/20]

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.

Staffing numbers for the local authority sector are available on the Public Service Numbers databank, which is hosted and maintained by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and is available at the following link:

The information sought is available broken down on a quarterly basis. The staffing numbers for the end of Quarter 2, 2020 are currently being collated and will be published on the DPER databank in due course.