Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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The important thing in this regard for the applicant is whether they end up with a local authority house or a private house under the HAP scheme. I was told by a council on Monday that applicants have no choice from now on; HAP is the only game in town. This means a person on a local authority waiting list will be either lucky and get a local authority house or unlucky and be accommodated in a private house under the HAP scheme and this will dependent on the manner in which each local authority deals with its list.