Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 pm
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Some 26,000 households were supported last year, many of them because of HAP. We need to have HAP at the moment. In 2020 and 2021, we will put more people into the stock of social housing than we will into HAP. We will finally start to turn the current situation on its head. Members will be familiar with the commitment in Project Ireland 2040, beyond Rebuilding Ireland. Essentially, for every five homes built every year, one-----