Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

As to the Deputy's first question, I am very satisfied we have really good people working on this in terms of both the compliance activity we are engaged in and the contracting activity. I should have mentioned earlier that we had support from other Departments as part of our initial response, in terms of seconding and borrowing people to assist us, including some specialist expertise. We had the benefit of accountancy expertise that was brought in around that. We have done our own recruitment on that front as well to ensure we have the necessary specialist expertise in those areas. I am satisfied that we continue to develop our capacity on these fronts but there obviously are evolving challenges all of the time. As the Deputy rightly stated, as the Ukraine response moves from one phase to another and where the challenge is consolidation, that will bring up a different set of issues. The impact on individuals who are being asked to move was referenced earlier. That will create a lot of issues at a local level.

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