Written answers

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Local Authority Staff

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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828. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities which employ a biodiversity officer in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20813/21]

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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829. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities which employ a heritage officer in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20814/21]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 828 and 829 together.

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, granular data, in terms of the detailed breakdown of the local authorities which employ Biodiversity Officers and Heritage Officers is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from individual local authorities.

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