Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts
2:00 am
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
It would be useful if we could get a breakdown year-on-year. Another point I wish to touch on was referenced earlier and relates to the 4.65 sq. m for people who are being provided accommodation. That goes back to the 2019 guidelines. The experience I have in my constituency is that emergency accommodation was being provided in a hotel. I had a lot of back and forth with the Department on this specific case where bunk beds were jammed into what was a ballroom. This was quite recent. It was certainly after the 2019 guidelines. How does a situation like that arise? That particular accommodation was being utilised to provide emergency accommodation and then overnight a decision was taken to double the capacity in the hotel by putting in more bunk beds. How does that a situation like that arise, given that these guidelines are in place from 2019?
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