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:

Not anything like we have seen and experienced.

There may have been expectation of some catch-up, given there were restrictions on international travel during the Covid period that had an impact on numbers at the time. There may have been an expectation of some element of increase but our overall yearly average was on the basis of 3,500 over a number of years. Our Estimate this year was based on a projected arrival rate of 4,500, which would have reflected the expectation of some level of catch-up but certainly nothing like what we have seen.

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