Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities

9:30 am

Mr. Anthony Flynn:

Okay.

On housing assistance payment, HAP, properties, traditionally the environmental health officers inspected private and HAP dwellings. However, owing to staff and resourcing issues on the part of the provider, the HSE, Dublin City Council now directly employs environmental health officers. We have our own stock of environmental health officers through which we roll out inspections.

In the city region, we are in control of our own destiny in that regard. We know the numbers that are required to carry out these inspections, both in private and housing assistance payment, HAP, properties.