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Minister O’Brien approves over 200 new housing posts for Local Authorities

  • - Additional staffing resources for housing related projects
  • - Key ‘Housing for All’ commitment to strengthening the capacity of Local Authorities

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD has approved more than 200 new posts for local authority housing delivery teams across the country which will assist Councils in delivering their social housing targets.

Housing for All, the Government’s new housing Plan, commits to strengthening the capacity of Local Authorities to initiate, design, plan, develop and manage housing projects. The Plan acknowledges that this requires the resourcing of housing delivery teams and the posts being announced today include a wide range of positions from engineers to quantity surveyors and architects with provision also made for the necessary administrative resources. 

Commenting Minister O’Brien said, “In September this year, the Government published our new housing strategy, ‘Housing for All’. It is the most comprehensive housing plan in the history of the State backed by an unprecedented €4bn per year. 

“Under ‘Housing for All’, we will deliver nearly 90,000 new build social homes by 2030 and we have put a very clear focus on the delivery of new build projects.

“My Department has been working with the Housing Delivery Coordination Office (HDCO) and the County and City Management Association (CCMA) to identify capacity limitations and additional staffing resources required to deliver our objectives.

“With the approval of these new posts, we are ensuring that all local authorities have the capacity to deliver the scale of social housing delivery required,” he concluded.

ENDS

 

 

Table of allocations:

 

Local authority

Total  Staff

Technical

Administrative

Carlow

5

3

2

Cavan

6

4

2

Clare

7

4

3

Cork City

11

9

2

Cork County

9

6

3

Donegal

12

10

2

Galway City

6

4

2

Galway County

13

10

3

Kerry

10

6

4

Kildare

13

10

3

Kilkenny

6

4

2

Laois

6

4

2

Leitrim

4

3

1

Limerick

6

3

3

Longford

7

4

3

Louth

6

4

2

Mayo

11

8

3

Meath

14

9

5

Monaghan

8

6

2

Offaly

5

5

0

Roscommon

6

4

2

Sligo

7

6

1

Tipperary

5

4

1

Waterford

8

7

1

Westmeath

7

6

1

Wexford

6

3

3

Wicklow

7

5

2

Total Posts

211

151

60

 

 

 

Table of new posts by grade below here:

 

 

Technical Posts

No of Posts

Senior Engineer

5

Senior Architect

2

Senior Executive Engineer

18

Senior Executive Architect

1

Senior Executive QS

4

Executive Engineer

32

Executive QS

11

Clerk of Works

21

Senior Executive Technician

5

Executive Architect

12

Executive Technician

21

Technician Grade 1

7

Assistant Engineer

8

Assistant Architect

3

Administrative Posts

 

Administrative Officer

7

Senior Staff Officer

8

Staff Officer

15

Assistant Staff Officer

17

Clerical Officer

14

Total

211

 

 

Note to Editor: The resources for the four Dublin local authorities are currently being examined, in the context of the preparation of the Delivery Action Plans for those local authorities. Sanctioning of additional posts for the four Dublin local authorities may be made following completion of the delivery action plans.