Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of the number of architects currently employed by local authorities, broken down by local authority; the number of vacant local authority architect posts there are, broken down by local authority; and for details of any plans to increase the number employed. [23989/25]

James Browne (Wexford, 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 authority for which he/she is responsible. My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this end, my Department gathers aggregate quarterly data on staff numbers in each local authority on a whole time equivalent basis.

However, granular data, in terms of the number of architects employed in each local authority, is not collected and consequently is not available in my Department. The relevant information would be available from each local authority.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of the qualifications required to take up a post as a local authority medical adjudicator. [23990/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Following clarification from the Deputy, I understand that this question relates to healthcare professionals in the context of medical priority applications on housing waiting lists.

I have no function in relation to these healthcare professionals.