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

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

How do we spend money doing up a facility for women in a crisis and make it suitable, which was one of the major issues, yet do not use it as a refuge? We can say it now but we were kind of hiding children there for years because one could not say to a woman, "Leave your child out in the car and come in". That is the reality of it and I was very uncomfortable with that but it was the only way.

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