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
Mr. Graham Doyle:
That is true. There are 59,000 HAP tenancies and 16,500 RAS tenancies. Those are the tenancies and there are more people under those roofs. That is a lot of people to try to accommodate under those schemes. I am not nit-picking but in some cases there is support, particularly in the HAP placefinder service, for people at risk of homelessness but in most cases it is as the Deputy says.