Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer

9:30 am

Mr. Roger Harrington:

I might open up with that before I hand over to the regulator. First, on the question of gearing, yes, we are very conscious of that issue and we have had a lot of interaction with the AHB sector over the past year or so on that. The Housing Alliance has produced a comprehensive report by Savills, which it has forwarded to us. The Irish Council for Social Housing, ICSH, has also produced a financial roadmap document which it published last October. We have been undertaking a CALF review, and one of the recommendations of that review is that we set up an internal departmental working group to look at the issue of gearing in the AHB sector, which will report in 2023.

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