Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

They are not necessarily new people but as part of HAP they are within a much more structured and protected system through the local authority as opposed to rent supplement, which was never designed to provide for their long-term housing needs.