asked the Minister for Local Government if in view of the fact that his Department are unable to procure sufficient personnel for their inspection staff in order to expedite building and reconstruction work, he will revert to the system of local appointment officers to carry out preliminary and other inspections of houses.
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The system in question related to only a small fraction of the duties being performed by housing inspectors and I do not propose to revert to it. When I referred recently to shortages of inspection staff that occurred last year I also stated that that position has now been reasonably well remedied.