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

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I welcome the extra staff for housing but I understand they are being used mostly for HAP and not for maintenance or doing up empty houses or to support the staff who are under strain trying to allocate houses. They have been taken on specifically for the housing assistance payment. Is that correct?