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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome Mr. McCarthy and his team, and Mr. Murray and Ms Maguire.

I shall start with the Rebuilding Ireland report on social housing delivery that the committee has received, for which I thank the Department. On page 2 there is a breakdown of the overall delivery by delivery methods such as build, void, acquisition, leasing, rental accommodation scheme, RAS and housing assistance payment, HAP. The total number of builds and acquisitions for 2018 was less than 7,000. Is that correct?