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:
We have purchased a number of properties that would have been described as phase 2 properties under the original White Paper proposals. I think 34 properties at this stage have been purchased. They would be smaller properties. We have shifted our focus on what are described in that as phase 1 properties, which are larger reception centres-----