Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Housing Schemes Expenditure: Think-tank for Action on Social Change

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Would it not be appropriate for us to have the figures for those availing of HAP each year, rather than simply a figure for new applicants? I state that because what is being presented distorts the figures. On the one hand, the total number of local authority and approved housing body completions are included, but on the other hand, we do not see total numbers of those availing of the HAP scheme. I wonder if it is possible to get those total figures for the numbers of people availing of HAP each year rather than just the number of new applications?