Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 June 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed)

10:10 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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The Deputy has gone over time. I will let her back in. The Deputy was trying to get a straight answer and used up more than six minutes trying to get an answer to the question. It is unsatisfactory that at the end of the six minutes, I am no clearer and neither is the Deputy or the committee on the answer to the question. It is not satisfactory. The Deputy wants to know whether the Department requires those providing homeless services to be Garda vetted. It is a "Yes" or "No" answer. If they do not, will the Department change this? I will ask the witnesses to come back in later and answer this for the Deputy.