Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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796.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the number of full-time equivalent staff at the National Building Control Office to 20, including three additional executive professional officers and 12 professional officers.[34242/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The National Building Control Management Project is managed by the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office (NBCMSO) within Dublin City Council to provide oversight, support and direction for the development, standardisation and implementation of Building Control as an effective shared service in the 31 Building Control Authorities. The Office has also been appointed as a competent authority for the carrying out of market surveillance functions under the European Union (Construction Products) Regulations 2013 for all related construction products on a nationwide basis.

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. However, granular data, in terms of the number and grades of staff members assigned to specific roles in a local authority, is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. Information on the current staffing levels in the NBCMSO would be available from Dublin City Council.

The Executive Professional salary scale applicable in the local government sector is outlined in the table below.

The Senior Executive Professional salary scale applicable in the local government sector is outlined in the table below.