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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am clearly talking about the latter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is not what I am asking about. I am asking about the emergency accommodation that is being provided.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: When Mr. Carthy refers to follow up, would the resident in any circumstances be told to first contact the intermediary?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In an extreme situation, the Department could withdraw all contracts with-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Department has done that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: If a hotel or property owner does not put in place the proper facilities and all the rest of it, the Department would withdraw its services from that location?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What happens if that property was sourced via an intermediary? What would happen in that instance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Mr. McCarthy keeps referring to a "small number" of instances. I know of-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: -----entire regions where, to my knowledge, all emergency accommodation is being delivered via intermediaries.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Are there any counties where, for example, there are more people being housed via intermediaries than via direct contracts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: On the last two, Nos. 5 and 6, is the €137,000 in a separate bank account, I take it, under the auspices of this account?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Are there bank charges?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In respect of the local loans fund, is it the case that there are no funds in that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Why do these entities still exist?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Whose responsibility would it be to wind them down?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It would be appropriate for us to write to the Department to ask if it has the intention to do that. On the Regulator of the National Lottery, I think we touched previously on this issue in respect of the pensions and that there is a liability of €3.2 million in terms of pensions. I presume that is accruing on an annual basis?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What would the standard practice usually be in those instances?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What does it mean when Mr. McCarthy draws attention to something but gives a clear audit opinion? What responsibility is there then or is there an added responsibility due to the fact that he has flagged that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It would be useful if the committee got a note from the Department about what it considers to be the solution to this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I agree with that entirely. There is a lot of talk about learning lessons. Every Department that comes before the committee is learning lessons from some previous debacle, yet new debacles are always beginning. None of those is bigger than that relating to the national children's hospital. At some point, someone - whether it is this committee or someone else - will need to look at how we...