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Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Departmental Staff Data

Photo of John CurranJohn Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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799. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional staff have been assigned to the housing delivery office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37486/18]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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At the time of its establishment in August 2016, the Housing Delivery Office (HDO) comprised a team of 4 people including staff seconded from the local government sector and the National Development Finance Agency. Having carried out a range of initial initiatives, and taking account of the fact that some assignments to the office were time-limited, the HDO was refocused in September 2017 to work more closely on supporting local housing delivery and land management.

To this end, the Housing Delivery Office is currently staffed by three officials; two civil servants and one officer who is currently on secondment to my Department from the local government sector. A fourth official is currently in the process of being assigned.

These officials work closely with the extensive range of highly experienced officers within the wider housing and planning areas of my Department and local authorities across key disciplines such as programme and project management, construction and contract management, capital programme delivery and administration.

As with all critical areas of activity in my Department, the resources available to the HDO are kept under regular review in the context of ongoing evolution of the Office's role and, in that context, I expect additional resources to be assigned to the Office shortly.

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