Written Answers - Local Authority Staff. Tuesday, 2 December 2008

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  369.  Deputy Ciarán Lynch      asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government      the regulations in place in regard to employment in the private sector of senior local authority staff whether on leave of absence or on a career break, former or retired, working part-time or full-time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43787/08]

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Deputy John Gormley):    All local authority staff are subject to the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995; the Standards in Public Office Act, 2001; the ethics provisions of the Local Government Act, 2001; the Code of Conduct for Local Authority Employees, and the Equality Act 2004. An Outside Appointments Board [417]for the Local Government Sector was established in June 2008 to consider applications from senior local authority employees, including City and County Managers, who intend to take up appointments outside the local government sector following resignation or retirement. The role of the Board is to maintain public trust in the local government service through independent assessment of post employment appointments that local authority employees propose to take up within one year of resigning or retiring from the local government service.

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