Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities that have a disability or equality officer in tabular form. [2027/22]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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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.

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 number of local authorities that employ disability or equality officers is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from individual local authorities.