Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Mr. Paul Hogan:
We did a piece of work with the local government sector to identify what the future requirement would be. There are approximately 1,500 people working, or posts sanctioned, in planning departments across the country.
It was identified that just over 500 additional people would be required in local government. We put a plan in place when we published the planning Bill in October last year to work towards that. We are trying to fill roughly 100 posts per annum. The qualified people simply are not there.
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