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:

To be clear, these are former nursing homes. We are obviously interested in securing accommodation that can suit our needs to expand our capacity. We are, however, equally concerned not to disrupt or negatively impact other sectors. We are conscious, for example, of the impact of the scale of what is involved on the hospitality sector. There are questions around how sustainable that will be in the long run and we are conscious of those questions. Those are considerations of which the Government is well aware and conscious in respect of our longer-term response. That is why we are looking to pursue as many self-catering, stand-alone facilities as we can. Our modular homes-----

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