Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin
10:00 am
Mr. Noel Waters:
We are talking about this year. To the best of my knowledge, up to the end of September about 1,500 people from Pakistan had applied for asylum in Ireland. That would have been approximately 40% to 45% of all applicants in our system at that stage. We are likely to have approximately 3,500, or perhaps 3,800, applicants this year, representing a very large increase over the last number of years.
No comments