Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan said the State was moving from private to State-owned accommodation which cut costs per resident from €31,000 to €12,000 a year
The report of the State’s financial watchdog showed the Government is “utterly incompetent” in the management of “billions in public money”, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has claimed.
Highlighting a chapter in the Comptroller & Auditor General’s report on international protection, Ms McDonald said in the Dáil there was “breathtaking evidence” of overcharging by private operators of accommodation on which the Government will spend €1.2 billion this year.
The report, publishe
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