Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs

9:00 am

Mr. Pat Smyth:

No. We have put in place other measures. We have a very strong programme called Creative Community Alternatives. There are two things I would call out. First, we talked about Signs of Safety, which is about trying to put in place community based structures with some of the grant-aided agencies we work with and also in terms of the way we build family supports around children. We provide much more money into those placements that are retained at local areas which, as we move forward in the next number of years, will give us an opportunity to take much of that €80 million and put it into local arrangements and placements, where we can, that deliver much more for that area.

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