Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Absolutely. There is a huge potential range in terms of the numbers. The Chairman will have heard some of the figures in the public domain. The Department of Health, in briefing of Ministers, had quoted a figure of 90,000 potentially. In terms of the different scenarios, scenario three of a number of potential scenarios is the one that we sort of see as being likeliest, which is where the conflict is consistent in terms of the current nature of the conflict.

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