Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs
9:00 am
Dr. Fergal Lynch:
We have a reasonable level of staffing for the purpose of providing the service to the number of children in the facility. We would run into difficulty if the courts were to start committing more children to the facility and we would then have to look for more staff. It is not easy to hire staff.