Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staffing requests received from the building control section of each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46763/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department receives staffing sanction request applications for specified grades of posts in the local authority rather than by business location. 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.

Accordingly, the information is not available in my Department but may be available directly from individual local authorities.

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of engineer position staffing requests under each engineer grade from each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46764/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Since, 1 January 2014, my Department has received 933 engineering staffing sanction requests from local authorities, of which 819 have been approved. The status of these requests is set out in the table attached. The posts not approved include:

- 18 requests which are pending, in general awaiting supporting information prior to an informed decision being taken;

- 12 requests refused;

- 38 requests withdrawn by the sector;

- 46 requests marked as 'Closed under Circular E.L. 02-2016', which were closed by my Department following the introduction of agreed numbers under workforce planning (the circular granted delegated sanction to Chief Executives to fill vacancies as needed in the context of the agreed Workforce Plan, and Departmental sanction was no longer therefore required).