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
Mr. Graham Doyle:
The system is moving towards building more accommodation. This has happened. If one compares the numbers built in 2016 with the numbers built in 2019, the year we are looking at today, or with the numbers that would have been delivered this year, one will see that more of these permanent solutions are certainly being brought into the system. This will continue and, over time, we will see the number of HAP tenancies reduce. In fact, it has reduced this year. I have some statistics in respect of the Deputy's constituency, which I can certainly send on to her.