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

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To move away from the Cork piece, I will make the point that nationally, as the Deputy said, the cost of a service like Oberstown equally impacts the cost of our own special care services. It is, unfortunately, that 80:20 position where the smaller number with very high immediate intensive needs in the most serious crisis situations utilises the greater share of the resources. I would not dispute that at all. It is a constant challenge.