Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.
9:30 am
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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We have a large array of witness before us. I hope they can assist us in getting to the bottom of some of our questions.
I will return to an issue I have raised many times, namely, the HAP and RAS. I have characterised these as accounting for one of the largest spends being left in the hands of some of the least equipped and most vulnerable people. The target and output for 2022 was nearly 19,000 HAP and RAS units. What was the total cost of HAP and RAS in the appropriations account?