Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, further to Question No. 907 of 21 March 2006, he has requested the lifting of the embargo on the recruitment of additional local authority staff in areas where there is substantial population growth or is he making staffing returns to his colleague. [14043/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Government policy on the control and regulation of numbers in the public sector, including local authorities, was announced in the Minister for Finance's budget statement of 7 December 2005. As I stated in the reply to Question No. 280 of 16 February 2006, I am keeping the overall employment position in the local government sector under regular review. I am awaiting information from local authorities on the staffing position at the end of the March 2006 quarter, and the relevant details will be forwarded to the Department of Finance in due course.