Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
2:00 pm
Mr. John McMahon:
I will have to come back to the Deputy about the specifics of that. Volunteers provided by the church and others were stewarding on the day. They would have been largely untrained in certain skills such as crowd control and possibly health and safety aspects. In respect of the stewarding we would have engaged, we would have insisted upon a level of capacity and competence. Training would have been necessary for those who did not have the right competence in order for them to acquire that competence.