Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

We should not have to rely on HAP. It is €1 billion a year into the pockets of landlords but until we have the level of public and affordable housing necessary, sadly, we are going to end up relying on it.

It is not the case that reliance on it, in my area, is going to decline when we consider the housing targets. The delivery plan for my area is 2,318 houses by 2026. There are currently 4,000 households on the list and the council has said that another 2,825 will join the list before 2026. We will have more people on the housing list in Dún Laoghaire at the end of Housing for All than we have currently, even with the new delivery under Housing for All. In that context, the HAP limits must be somewhere approximating the rents that are out there. At the moment, trying to find a place that is affordable for the HAP limits is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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