Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin McCarthy:
Yes. A number of efforts would have been made to contact those people, as I understand it. We supplemented the Red Cross resources with support from the Defence Forces in order to work through those calls. That was to ensure everybody received a call. There is no question that there are people who proved to be uncontactable for whatever reason. I do not know the circumstances of the particular cases that the Deputy is aware of. They would not have come about because of a lack of effort on the part of the Red Cross.