Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

We will have a sense of the number of households that have come onto the list. This is the difficulty with social housing lists. While there is good visibility of the numbers of households coming onto the list because they are assessed, there is not the same visibility of those whose circumstances may have changed and who may no longer be in need of social housing support. They may have moved area or may have moved out of the country. We do the count once a year because it provides an opportunity to present the full picture of the numbers that have come on and off. We will do that again in June. The target for 2019 is to support just less than 27,400 households this year. We will break those targets down by local authority shortly.

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