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

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Ukrainian people make up the largest group of arrivals but there are also people coming from other areas for whom recognition of qualifications will equally be an issue.

I spoke to the departmental witnesses on the previous occasion they were here about the level of suicide among Travellers, which is horrendously high. Can they give any progress update on the Department's initiatives in this regard, even within the period to which the accounts we are examining relate? I refer to investment in key programmes and their outcomes.