Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of staff employed in the building control section in each local authority in tabular form; and his plans to increase available staff and resources to all building control sections. [40362/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department gathers quarterly data on staff numbers in local authorities. The data gathered do not provide detail in respect of numbers working in the building control sections within each local authority and accordingly the information requested is not available in my Department.

Under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authorities for which he or she is responsible. In this regard, it is a matter for each individual Chief Executive to recruit and assign staff to specific divisions.