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:

Just to respond to what the Deputy said about more and more money, the basic point I am making is that seven or eight years ago, in 2011, when HAP did not yet exist, the amount put into the RAS and rent supplement schemes together was €619 million.