Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To continue that line of questioning on the transition from short-term to longer-term supports, I will focus on the move from RAS to HAP. In many ways, it is an unfair comparison because, in many cases, it was a move from rent supplement, which was with the Department with responsibility for social welfare, towards HAP. Can Mr. Doyle compare the transition from RAS to HAP and talk about why we have not seen the reduction in RAS we might have expected with the introduction of HAP? Can he compare it with the reduction that social welfare saw over that period?