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
Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
I welcome everybody here today. I would also like to express my anger in relation to the ten-year-old child that was neglected by the State and nobody knew where they were. Controls should be in place. I commend the Garda on the work it is doing at the moment.
Would the witnesses say that it is fair to describe the findings in the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General in relation to IPAS accommodation contracted by the Department as poor and inconsistent and that due diligence on the Department’s part has been absent?
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