Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 December 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality

4:30 pm

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

We inspect the facility. If there is a deficiency, we expect it to be remedied. That is what happens commonly. We can send another official to check that whatever is imperfect, such as a problem with showers, for example, is remedied. Ultimately, if the issue is not resolved for some time, we will end the contract. That is the biggest issue. That would only be done after we had worked hard with the operator to ensure it brings standards up to speed because, particularly in 2019, we needed to ensure we had as many beds as possible available to us in order that we were not putting people into hotels as an alternative.

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