Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will stop Mr. McCarthy there. I contacted Waterford City Council and I got the figures up to September. If it has them, I am sure every local authority has them. There are 30 local authorities. We want as much information as possible to allow us to see what is happening in social housing. Whatever timeframe Mr. McCarthy can get them for is fine. I think he can get them up to September but whenever he can get them is fine. The breakdown is applications received, validated and approved. I am talking about them being broken down by local authority. I also want the figures for the Rebuilding Ireland targets under the headings acquisitions, build and lease. What are the targets for each local authority and what targets are being met? Mr. McCarthy gave us the overall figures but I want them broken down by local authority. We might be able to see that some local authorities are better at delivering than others. We will then be able to see the number of people being approved for housing, the targets over the next three years for each local authority and whether things will get better or worse or stay the same so that at least we can benchmark. Could as much as possible be provided to the committee? I will send the clerk a note of exactly what I am looking for in that breakdown which can then be forwarded to Mr. McCarthy.

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