The corporate landlords and agents named in my coverage of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) yesterday receive significantly more in taxpayer-funded subsidies each year than the threshold for which public procurement must legally be advertised. They also collect hundreds of times more than the €1,250 amount over which the Department of Agriculture publishes the names, locations and subsidies paid to individual farmers. These are some of the arguments I presented to the Office of the Information Commissioner in the appeal that finally resulted in the release of partial data on HAP-subsidised landlords. The process, however, took a full year and…

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