Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let me just go back to HAP. There is nothing wrong with a sense of any scheme providing support. We need to support people. When it is the major player in the housing market, I have a serious problem regarding value for money. When a figure doubles within a year and continues to increase, I have a serious problem as a member of the Committee of Public Accounts. Built into that is lack of security and many other problems. That is just in respect of HAP, which has been enshrined in legislation as, in its implementation, the only game in town. Mr. Murray and Ms Maguire are from the CCMA. Have they had a function over the past number of years of feeding back their experience to the Government about the rising housing crisis - "Yes" or "No"?