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
Ms Oonagh McPhillips:
I do not have that number in front of me. However, at the beginning of the strategy, we had 141. The target is somewhere around 280, that is, to double the number over the lifetime of the strategy. We are on target to do that. By the end of next year, we are on target to have 52 additional new family refuge units and 45 new safe homes. At that stage, there will also be 50 units still under construction. The strategy will exceed its targets over the course of the next couple of years.
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