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. Bernard Gloster:
There are two parts to that. The first is that we collect data from our funded agencies ourselves directly through the service level agreement we have with them. However, that is a challenge and a deficit for us because Benefacts pulled together data from a variety of sources, including their annual reports and so on. Essentially, the gap removes part of our assurance and we have to try to continue to build that into our own system now. However, our own system for commissioning is not yet what might be called a modern digital system that operates consistently across the country. It is very variable, and there is no doubt but that it has taken away a part of the assurance on which we relied.
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