Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is a good question. We are engaging with them. I have more housing summits with local authorities the week after next. We have approved another 250 posts across the 31 local authorities for the housing delivery teams. To look at the figures for whole-time equivalents, actual staff, for 2020 - I do not have the full-year figures for 2021 - we had 29,366 staff in local authorities. That was up from 26,800 in 2016, so we are going in the right direction. We need more housing staff like quantity surveyors, engineers, draughtspeople and so on. We have helped our local authorities to build up their housing delivery teams and we continue to do so. That forms part of their housing delivery plans. We have given the resources that have been looked for so far because I wanted the local authorities to be able to deliver the affordable and social homes we need.