Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 November 2025
491. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps being taken to ensuring that all advertised vacancies for clerks of works and building control inspectors are in line with updated qualifications for those roles. [64937/25]
View answerSection 160 of the Local Government Act 2001 provides the Minister with the power to declare qualifications of such classes and descriptions as he or she thinks fit for a specified employment under a local authority or for such of the employments as belong to a specified class, description or grade. Qualifications for Clerk of Works / Building Inspector were most recently declared on 29 April 2021 and are available on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/collections/building-surveyor-services-in-local-authorities-qualifications/.
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 or she is responsible. The recruitment and filling of Clerk of Works / Building Inspector posts in the local authority sector is undertaken by individual local authorities. Section 160(1)(c) of the Local Government Act 2001 provides that a person is not be appointed to any employment under a local authority for which qualifications are for the time being declared under section 160 unless he or she possesses those qualifications.
