Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

A big chunk of it, from our point of view, is the accelerated procedure, making decisions faster and the ramp-up in staff I just discussed with the Chair. The additional resources are key. That accelerated procedure is having an impact. We have recommenced refusal decisions. As we step away from the pandemic, it is very easy to forget its impact but, essentially, we did not make refusal decisions for two years because people simply could not be removed. It would not have been humane. People could not travel and we could not tell them to get on a plane, because there was no international travel. It had an impact. We recommenced the process in the course of 2022 and that is-----

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