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
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)
Of course, so there is a broader cost than just accommodation. The reason I ask that question is that I was reading the OECD report with regard to the Development Assistance Committee, that is, the DAC-able element, and it has a cost per refugee for different OECD countries. The UK was the highest at $26,400, but Ireland was second at $19,400. Have we looked at other countries and the cost of refugee protection in Ireland as opposed to there? It would appear, in the context of that report - and I accept I am throwing at a report at the witnesses, poorly referenced - that we are a complete outlier in terms of the cost per refugee that we are reporting.
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