Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:

The crude numbers are that staffing in the International Protection Office has doubled from about 200 to 400 over the course of the last year, which is a huge increase. There is additional funding of €34 million across the international protection process into 2024. We are also bringing on board more panel members and more investment at the appeals stage. As has been said, there is very significant investment in technology. The whole application process at first stage is increasingly paperless, which allows for significant savings when moving applications through the system, including on to appeal stage.

There is a significant focus on processing, particularly the accelerated cases where our original target was three months but we are comfortably realising that at 60 days so we are very pleased with the Department's-----