Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 May 2021
Public Accounts Committee
Housing Schemes Expenditure: Think-tank for Action on Social Change
9:30 am
Dr. Robert Sweeney:
Here is spending on social housing output. The bottom part of the bar shows local authority completions and acquisitions. We also have completions and acquisitions by approved housing bodies, AHBs - the non-profit housing associations. We have Part V new builds. That is where the private sector builds 10% social housing as part of its developments. We have RAS new transfers and HAP. We should see that expenditure on HAP has increased a lot in recent years. There has been very significant expenditure on HAP. RAS new transfers now form a fairly small part of overall expenditure.
The next slide shows public current expenditure on housing in 2019. Here we see that HAP is 36.4% of expenditure; accommodation for homeless is 15.7%; SHCEP, which is the leasing scheme, is 13.2%; RAS is-----
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