Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

The statement is correct in that we endeavour to provide that information to public representatives before opening any new centre, but there is a point in time at which that happens. Unfortunately, as the Deputy mentioned there, sometimes the information breaks for reasons outside of our control before we have reached the point where we are in a position to share the information. That is obviously unfortunate and puts public representatives in a difficult position. However, we cannot provide information on a new centre until such time as we have secured-----