Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff dealing with housing, by local authority. [4465/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for staffing and organisation arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible.

My Department, however, works closely with local authorities with regard to the implementation of the Government's Social Housing Strategyand in 2015all local authorities were invited to submit staffing sanction requests to facilitate its delivery.

Furthermore, the staffing approval process was also streamlined to ensure the fast tracking of staffing sanction requests. As a result, in 2015, over four hundred local authority posts were sanctioned for recruitment, to support the delivery of the Social Housing Strategy.