Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
9:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
In the case of people who are there a long time, some of them are in the category that we talked about earlier - those who have permission to remain. As we said, there are 730 plus people in this category. Some of them would be from among the longer period residents. We are hitting difficulties in finding ways to move them into normal housing but we are trying to engage with NGOs and local authorities in that respect. Others, as mentioned by Mr. Kirrane, are coming through the judicial review process. The courts work in the way the courts work and we have to respect that. It is absolutely in the interests of the Department to move all of those-----
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