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:
I will need to check, but it has just been drawn to my attention that children in refuges may be viewed as short-term out-of-home and not counted in the homeless figures. I am not saying that for certain, but I will need to check. It depends on how the homeless figures are counted.