Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts
2:00 am
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
We had the HSE before the committee last week, and we saw that Covid was a crisis. They relaxed the rules, €15 million went to a company, and now €7 million of that is not recoverable and it is all a disaster. We have the Department of justice in here today - I know it was the responsibility of the Department of children before - and billions of euro has been paid out on accommodation to manage a crisis. The attitude seems to be that it was a crisis so it can be justified. I have crises in my constituency, such as children who cannot get SNAs or other supports. Those are crises and we are not able to take out the cheque book, so I just have a huge issue with that.
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