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
10:30 am
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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The overall total for last year comes to €893 million, which is not too far off €1 billion. Mr. Doyle would surely accept that there has been a shift away from building social homes and towards providing rental subsidies to private landlords. That is the idea of HAP and all of that. There is the possibility that a figure of €1 billion in rent subsidies could be reached.