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

Any member of the public who is not eligible for HAP and who has attended rent viewings would argue greatly with Ms Mason that HAP does not have a distorting impact on the market. It is a temporary, short-term, necessary support. Nobody disagrees with that. The question is: how long do we accept it as a short-term, necessary support? Has the Department set a target for when an eighth of its budget will no longer be spent by thousands of people without any public procurement oversight on the individual contracts?