Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report
9:30 am
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I know Mr. McCarthy is getting an array of questions on the modular homes contracted by the Department. What is the lifespan of those modular homes? Hopefully, this war will be over soon. Families have been split up and are in an awful situation. The right thing to do is to try to help them for now but many may decide to go back. I think 80% of the people coming are women and children so many of them will have husbands, boyfriends, partners, mothers and fathers in Ukraine and will want to return so we could finish up having some extra homes. What is the lifespan of those homes?