Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

It did. This is the McMahon working group, chaired by Mr. Justice McMahon. It acknowledged, as we do, that time is a major issue in respect of direct provision and that every effort should be made to ensure that people were not left an inordinate amount of time in direct provision. That is why I referenced the fact that the International Protection Act, which is now law, is a real game-changer when it comes to that. We expect it-----

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