Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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1006.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing one additional procurement officer for each local authority, in tabular form. [33382/24]

Alan Dillon (Mayo, 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 and salary costs. To this end, my Department gathers quarterly data on staff numbers in local authorities and data on salary costs. However, the data collected does not provide details of the role and function of individual grades. Therefore, my Department does not hold data on the number of procurement officers currently employed in each local authority and related salary costs.

In general the role of procurement officer is remunerated at Administrative Officer. The Administrative Officer salary scale is outlined in the table below.