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:
In fairness, Chairman, it is not just about changing the name. There are two key benefits in moving from rent supplement to HAP. One is, and we are not fully there yet as is obvious from the earlier discussion, better inspections of properties, which would not have been a feature in rent supplement, so we can get to a point of being satisfied that we are utilising good quality accommodation. There is a second crucial element for HAP recipients. Unlike with rent supplement whereby they lose their entire support when they reach a certain threshold in terms of their circumstances changing-----
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