Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That has been a burning issue for many.

My next question is for the witnesses from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. If they do not have the answer, they may send it on. Reference was made to the HAP. On the Joe Duffy show all week, landlords were ringing in saying they took on tenants on the HAP and had no problem doing so but then received a letter from the local authority or the central processing body in Limerick stating that because those tenants did not pay their rent contributions, amounting to 14% or 15%, the landlords' payments would be stopped. How many landlords had their HAP suspended during the course of the year to date? Could I have a breakdown of the reasons, especially where it was through no fault of the landlord and was because a tenant did not pay his or her proportion? The witnesses will have heard that controversy raging all week. Could they talk to us about it?