Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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While the indicators measure the output, in some cases there was a failure to understand the economic element and the value-for-money element. Let me take two examples. A housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy has an indicator. Many of us in the room would have dealt with a family who might have become homeless, availed of emergency accommodation, exited emergency accommodation, taken up a HAP tenancy and after 12 months or another period found themselves back in emergency accommodation and back in a second HAP tenancy. That is very clearly bad value for money, albeit market driven. Many of us would like to see greater focus on value for money and less on counting what is effectively two exits from homelessness.