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:

I would say that the rent limits available, under the housing assistance payment, are the same ones as were increased under the rent supplement scheme back in the middle of last year. That was on foot of analysis done by the Department of Social Protection and approved by Government.