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:

We keep a close watch on the overall balance. We have good real-time data mapped by a geographic information system, GIS. Those data tell us where people are located and they are shared across government to allow people to build an understanding of the associated service impacts and requirements. We are aware of that. We are conscious of the potential impact on areas. We have, for example, deliberately not contracted further in an area where we feel the level of pressure on services may become too great. It comes back to the ongoing engagement we have with local authorities to get their sense of where the pressure points might be. It is something of which we are aware.

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