Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities.
4:30 pm
Ms Marguerite Ryan:
No. We have got 6,000 off the scheme in total to transfers to other forms of social housing but, overall, since the scheme started, 22,000 people have left the scheme for various reasons, such as back to work, back to education, have found other jobs and moved location. Of that 22,000, the number who have got their long-term social home is 6,000.
There is a really good report, published last week by the Central Statistics Office, that analyses data probably more than we could because it compares it to those of Revenue and the Department of Social Protection. It shows how being in HAP has improved the financial situation for a number of tenants.