Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage

10:20 am

Ms Áine Stapleton:

I could point to a few areas that may be helpful. Our colleagues in the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have conducted a number of spending reviews around the areas of social housing, looking recently at the social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, and the value for money in leasing. In addition, each leasing proposal is rigorously assessed before it gains approval and we use the expertise of the Housing Agency to assist in that as well.