Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

I may be confusing matters somewhat but there are two things at play here. There is a very specific requirement with regard to publicly-funded properties through the HAP scheme. We need to get our systems talking to each other so that we can actually satisfy ourselves that we are meeting those requirements. In the case of HAP, the point we are working towards is ensuring that if a property has not been inspected in the previous 12 months, it will be inspected in the following nine months. That needs to apply to every publicly-funded property. The broader target is to ensure that the standard of properties in the private rental sector generally is acceptable.

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