Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional resourcing he has given to local authorities to staff affordable housing units. [47647/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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With the support of the Housing Delivery Co-ordination Office in the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), my Department undertook a review of the requirements for affordable housing staff resources in those local authorities with an identified strong demand for housing from households with an affordability constraint. Key considerations in this review included the type of structure (administrative/professional staff) necessary to deliver affordable housing, scale of delivery programmes and alignment with the additional support already provided for social housing delivery earlier in 2022.

The draft local authority staffing strategy for the delivery of affordable housing over the lifetime of the National Development Plan has been concluded at official level and is now subject to on-going engagement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

This is a key requirement to underpin affordable housing delivery and concluding this exercise and putting the required structures in place with the support of the LGMA to enable affordable housing delivery is a matter of priority.