Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of pending staff requests for housing departments in each local authority in tabular form; and the details of the grades of the pending staff requests and the length of time each request is pending. [58426/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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 assign staff to specific divisions.

My Department has 48 housing related staff sanction requests pending. Posts that are pending are, in general, awaiting supporting information and my Department is supporting and working with local authorities on the particular issues arising. The requests set out in the table below have been identified as relating to housing by the submitting local authority.