Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage

11:45 am

Ms Caroline Timmons:

I can deal with that issue. We are looking under the SLAs that they would be vetted. There was a piece on that last year in relation to rough sleepers and outreach services which was complicated. That has been addressed in the recent past. The DRHE, as I understand it, is requiring anyone who works directly with a homeless person to be vetted. That may not be all persons-----