Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

These issues are all part of the same challenge. Just to finish what I was saying about procurement, on foot of the RFT there is a limited amount of additional accommodation coming on stream. We continue to procure outside of that process to meet the demands of international protection. The demands on the international protection front, as the Deputy is aware, have grown very significantly over the course of this year. We have seen over 11,000 arrivals so far this year, as against the normal projected arrivals rate of 3,500 per year. There is absolutely an issue with the number of people with status within the system, who continue to remain in accommodation provided as part of the international protection process. That is part of the wider challenge in terms of-----

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