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:
Effectively we have two systems that work in tandem to ensure that we have exact numbers in terms of who is in accommodation at a point in time. We have brought on stream in the last year a Microsoft Dynamics system called Bed Space so that we have full oversight of the system with a modern IT system. In addition to that, we get bed registers in from every provider every week. I have a dedicated team that assesses those and follows up with them. We also have on-the-spot inspections, not just on the inspection-----
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