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
Mr. David Delaney:
Ultimately, it goes back to the crisis that the Secretary General and I outlined. It went from 7,000 beds to 27,000 beds in a short space of time, less than two years. Although we ask and work with providers to get to the national standards, even in some emergency accommodation if it a choice between not being able to provide beds for everybody or emergency accommodation, it may have a lower space ratio than we would like, or bunk beds. We have been clear that emergency accommodation does not always meet national standards. Where it can, we work with providers to try to meet that standard.
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