Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:

Staffing has increased across the immigration service but we have many competing demands across all fronts, whether international protection, visas, as the Deputy says, and citizenship. We balance the allocation of staffing against multiple demands. There is a huge increase in staffing. As the Secretary General said, there is a significant investment in technology in the immigration service. With the growth in business, we cannot keep chasing this with more and more staff. We need to apply technology and make this more streamlined. That is where we will probably get the bulk of our productivity in the coming years.

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