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
Mr. John McCarthy:
Absolutely. For what it is worth, some of it goes back to what I said at the outset. When one looks at the 59-week, four-stage process, if one actually strips out the time that we are adding to the process by having three stages of approval, we think that it actually only takes six weeks out of the 59. Against that background, at one stage, albeit significantly de-risked versus six weeks more and having things very nailed down and de-risked further-----
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