Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

Absolutely. We are looking at the numbers of applications that had been recommended for approval by the Housing Agency and how many have been drawn down by local authorities. It is clear that it has proved to be more popular than would have been foreseen.