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:

Charters have always been part of the methodologies we use to remove people. Obviously, that did not take place during Covid. We are out to the market at the moment and are requesting information that leads to a request for tender. The objective is to have a drawdown contract for charter flights available probably by quarter three of this year. Assuming we can assemble enough people to make it viable to run a charter, we expect to do that this year. It will never replace ordinary commercial flights, which are very flexible, and we continue to use them but it is an important part of the methodologies we used in the past that all jurisdictions across Europe use.

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