Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin McCarthy:
I appreciate that. We do appreciate the pressure it places on public representatives in those situations. We are trying to balance public interests here, in terms of the kinds of impacts the Deputy is describing and the kind of impact I am describing, where we are not in a position to offer accommodation to women and children.