Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality
9:00 am
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I shall move on. I want to discuss accommodation for asylum seekers, which Deputy Connolly spoke about. A sum of €65 million in 2016, which is an increase of €7 million on the 2015 figure. As many as 4,000 have sought refuge in Ireland and 519 refugees have arrived in Ireland, and 320 persons under another heading. Can I have the most up to date figures? How has the programme that we have stared progressed? Are we up to date? Have more people to be brought here? Have we met the quotas? Are we finished when we reach 4,000 refugees or do we keep going?
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