Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage

11:35 am

Ms Áine Stapleton:

It is useful to put this in context. When HAP was set up, there was an evolution of rent supplement to HAP. The oversight arrangements were jointly sponsored by the Department with responsibility for housing and the Department of Social Protection. As those processes were worked through, we then entered, what one could call, a stable environment. The reflection that took place in 2021 and that which is very much echoed in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, is the need to bring that to the next strategic level, to bring an independent chair to the oversight group and to bring a renewed focus. We accept-----

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