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 are satisfied that we are not. To put those 54 contracts into context, 52 of them are in the international protection area, which was the subject of significant non-compliant procurement in 2020, as well as 2021. The context was that we were facing significant challenges in meeting the needs of international protection. In the Covid environment, for example, there was a requirement for the "thinning out", as it was referred to, of facilities. In other words, people had to be moved on from existing international protection facilities in a context where public health requirements were introduced, including social distancing and so on. The contracts at that time-----

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