Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 6 April 2017
32. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will release funding to employ more staff in the housing section of Laois and Kildare County Councils and release extra funding to expand their housing construction programmes. [16819/17]
View answerMy Department works closely with Laois County Council and Kildare County Council in relation to their overall staffing requirements. However, under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, it is the Chief Executive of the Council who is responsible for staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority. Funding provided from my Department towards capital construction projects can be used to assist in meeting the cost of local authority administration and technical work associated with those projects.
Details of the social housing construction programmes of Laois and Kildare County Councils are included in the list of projects nationwide that I published as part of the Rebuilding Ireland reporting at end-Quarter 4 2016 and which can be accessed at the following link: http://rebuildingireland.ie/news/social-housing-developments/. This shows 10 social housing construction projects in Co Laois at that point and 13 in Co Kildare, which are at various stages of advancement from planning and design, to those that are already on site. This list is being added to on an ongoing basis and I have assured Laois and Kildare County Councils, and all other local authorities, that funding is in place to support these important construction programmes.
Since 1 January 2015, my Department has received 7 staff sanction requests from Laois County Council and 56 staff sanction requests from Kildare County Council in relation to Housing, with all 63 posts approved. The sanctioned posts include replacement, temporary and additional staff. There are no outstanding Housing related sanction requests from these local authorities with my Department. The detail of the sanction requests received is set out in the following table.
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- |
Title of Post |
Number of posts |
|
Laois Co |
Senior Executive Officer |
1 |
|
Chief Technician Housing |
1 |
|
|
Assistant Staff Officer Housing |
1 |
|
|
Chief Technician |
1 |
|
|
Executive Technician |
1 |
|
|
Staff Officer |
1 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
1 |
|
|
Total |
7 |
|
|
Kildare Co |
Senior Architect |
1 |
|
Director of Services (Planning) |
1 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
1 |
|
|
Social Worker |
2 |
|
|
BER Assessor -Clerk of Works Grade 6 |
1 |
|
|
Tenant Liaison Officer |
1 |
|
|
Senior Architect |
1 |
|
|
Senior Executive Officer |
1 |
|
|
Project Manager Housing |
1 |
|
|
Administrative Officer |
1 |
|
|
Staff Officer |
2 |
|
|
Executive Engineer |
1 |
|
|
Executive Technician |
2 |
|
|
Tenant Sustainability Officer |
1 |
|
|
Homeless Outreach Worker |
1 |
|
|
Assistant Staff Officer |
3 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
3 |
|
|
Homeless Outreach Worker |
1 |
|
|
Executive Planner |
1 |
|
|
Clerk of Works Housing Delivery |
4 |
|
|
Clerk of Works Housing Maintenance |
1 |
|
|
Tenant Sustainability Officer (SO level) |
2 |
|
|
Staff Officer |
1 |
|
|
Assistant Staff Officer |
2 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
2 |
|
|
Staff Officer |
1 |
|
|
Assistant Staff Officer |
1 |
|
|
Assistant Staff Officer |
1 |
|
|
Assistant Staff Officer |
1 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
1 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
1 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
2 |
|
|
Staff Officer |
1 |
|
|
Assistant Staff Officer |
2 |
|
|
Executive Planners |
3 |
|
|
Clerical Officer |
3 |
|
|
Senior Executive Planner |
1 |
|
|
Total |
56 |
