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:

The key issue is that when these schemes were introduced in 2008 and 2009 - and further back - there was a concern to try to support parents who were looking for childcare facilities-----