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 Benson:
A working group has been established by the LGMA to look at staffing for housing services across the country. It is an add-on to what happened in 2021. Some 250 extra staff were provided in 2022 in the area of social housing. The requirement is again being looked at in light of the growth in and ambition of the targets and everything else. We are hoping the work will be concluded by the third quarter of this year to give us an idea of what the request is and if the skill mix is correct. It may not be numbers, but so many different skills.
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