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:

There are two things I would say on that. One is to again point to the scale of the pressure we have been under, which has driven decisions, as the Deputy will appreciate, with that imperative of trying as best we can to be in a position to be able to offer accommodation to people on arrival.