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

Mr. Michael Kirrane:

Yes. Under the relocation strand, there is a 1,022 and under resettlement there is 792, to date. There are 41 unaccompanied minors from Calais. That brings the total to 1,850.

Just to say in relation to the original EU relocation figures were, the two EU legal instruments, which mandatory allocated out numbers for each member state, totalled 2,622. That figure was based on a total number of 160,000 people to be relocated across Europe. The reality was that those numbers did not materialise and the overall numbers amounted to about 37,000. We ended up taking 1,022 of those numbers. It is recognised and acknowledged by the EU Commission that Ireland has taken more than its proportion of what it would be obliged to take under the original key of distribution.

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