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:

Yes, there has. At an earlier stage of this challenge, we would have had some spare capacity in recognised international protection centres, for example. We have contracted with hotels that have subsequently come through a request-for-tenders process for international protection accommodation. Given the pressures on international protection accommodation in these circumstances, we have had to pivot to international protection where international protection applicants can be accommodated. We are much more limited in terms of the range of offerings available to us on the international protection front.

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