Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I would appreciate data on that. From the transcript of the meeting we had in February, I note that the DHRE had four people working on a team to look at modified standards for those PEA facilities. I would appreciate more information as to whether we are still dealing with four people. We have all been talking about the homelessness crisis and the provision of private emergency accommodation since 2017 or 2018, when there was a real move to do this. It seems worrying that now, in 2022, we are talking about applying the same standard to PEA as we are already applying to NGOs. That seems like a policy lacuna.