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. Kevin McCarthy:

There would have been a combination of a reuse of funds within the year and a surrender of excess funds of a significant scale. Given the scale of the savings that were involved in both of those sectors, it would have been expected of us that we would surrender those savings.