Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
General Scheme of Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion
2:10 pm
Ms Karen Murphy:
That is a nationwide survey among a small number of the AHBs, the larger bodies. This year there was a capital assistance scheme, CAS, call at the beginning of the year and approvals were granted at the end of July. If there was a CAS call, they would be spread fairly well throughout the country. However, it is difficult to plan ahead for CAS when it is based on a call. One may have a scheme in mind for a CAS programme but one cannot submit an application until there is a call in place. That is part of the co-ordination issue we are talking about. We do not know from year to year when the next CAS call will be. It is a matter of being able to bring together such systems in place so that we can predict and plan to deliver better.