Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 664: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason his Department is preventing Fingal County Council from employing additional housing maintenance inspectors to address the long waiting list of applicants with disabilities who are seeking to have adaptions done to their houses in this council area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14522/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The allocation within local authorities of available staffing resources for the carrying out of specific functions is a matter for the City or County Manager concerned under Section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001.

While this is therefore a matter in which I have no direct function, my Department is currently reviewing the overall employment position in the local government sector, in consultation as appropriate with the Department of Finance, having regard to the need to deliver front line services and achieve value for money within the parameters of Government policy on public service employment generally.