Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 July 2018
2727. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the local authorities that have and have not appointed an officer with responsibility for migrant integration, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34332/18]
View answerUnder section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, it is the Chief Executive of each local authority who is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the authority.
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 quarterly data on staff numbers in local authorities; however, the data gathered does not provide details in terms of assignment of particular functional areas of work. Accordingly, the information requested is not available in my Department, but may be obtained directly from local authorities.
