Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Mr. Moloney. The Department has told the committee that the increased spend on private rental subsidies is now more than €1 billion per year or 20% of the housing budget. That is required to meet the housing needs of people who are supported through the likes of the housing assistance payment, HAP. Mr. Moloney referred to many years of decline historically with regard to the delivery of housing stock. Does he agree that at least up until this point, Government policy has failed with regard to the delivery of housing? I am speaking about social housing in particular. Did the Department ever raise those concerns with successive Ministers?