742 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious anomaly in the ratio of local authority staff to population in Counties Kildare and Meath in the Great Dublin Area which respectively have one local authority staff member for every 200 people in County Kildare and one local authority staff member for every 215 people in County Meath; his views on whether these counties saw the largest growth in population in the State between 1996 and 2002 at 21.4 per cent and 22.1 per cent respectively compared to the State growth in population of 8 per cent; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that in counties such as Kerry there is a local authority staff member for every 124 people, Cavan a local authority staff member for 124 people, Clare a local authority staff member for every 123 people; his views on whether the pressures of population growth in County Kildare and County Meath require him to lift the public service recruitment embargo in these local authority areas in view of the demands from the public for services; and if he will discuss this matter with the Department of Finance. [27424/06]

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742 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious anomaly in the ratio of local authority staff to population in Counties Kildare and Meath in the Great Dublin Area which respectively have one local authority staff member for every 200 people in County Kildare and one local authority staff member for every 215 people in County Meath; his views on whether these counties saw the largest growth in population in the State between 1996 and 2002 at 21.4 per cent and 22.1 per cent respectively compared to the State growth in population of 8 per cent; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that in counties such as Kerry there is a local authority staff member for every 124 people, Cavan a local authority staff member for 124 people, Clare a local authority staff member for every 123 people; his views on whether the pressures of population growth in County Kildare and County Meath require him to lift the public service recruitment embargo in these local authority areas in view of the demands from the public for services; and if he will discuss this matter with the Department of Finance. [27424/06]

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