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
Catherine 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?