Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Our early identification of requirements on this was very much around the immediate response. The initial identification of role requirements was probably in the order of about 60 but this develops and goes through various phases. To give the Deputy an example, as I mentioned, we have accommodated 42,000 people but the number of accommodation moves involved within that, where people come into rest centre accommodation, for example, and then move on into subsequent accommodation, amplifies the need as various streams of this develop. Reference was made to the communication requirement. We have kept our needs under constant review. It is not a simple case that we prescribed our needs at the outset.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.