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
Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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In reality, the Department supported providers. It handed money to Pobal and Pobal, in turn, handed it to them. The money went to the providers and it did not go to the families. They were not getting good value. The Department did not set out what it proposed to do. One is not getting good value for money if the child is not turning up.