Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:30 am
Ms Oonagh McPhillips:
No. What we are finding again and again, and what the Garda find, is that they are not in the accommodation at that point. They may well have left the country entirely. Some of the decisions are based on the fact that they have not been engaging with the process, so our belief in regard to those applications is that they have not been in the country at all. They may have made an initial application and then left the country and the decision is negative because they have not engaged with the process and so they are not here at that point at all.
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