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
11:35 am
Ms Áine Stapleton:
In 2021, we reviewed the governance structures, which contained two tiers. As we established the HAP scheme and moved rent supplement tenancies to HAP, there was an operational phase to that. We had an oversight group and a project board. In 2021, we reviewed the entirety of the governance structures and it aligned very well with the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General. We commissioned an external report on that and we have now set up a single oversight group under a new independent chair. That oversight group is up and running and is working through its work programme.