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:

I am happy to take that. Unfortunately, I have also read the report so I am aware of it. It is an interesting read and it has informed decision-making. Probably one difference in Ireland compared to other OECD countries is that the surge impacted not just IPAS but the whole international protection system. While brilliant work is being done in the International Protection Office and the International Protection Appeals Tribunal, processing times have increased, which means people are staying in the accommodation for longer. That would be out of the norm compared to other OECD countries. As well as that, because of the excellent work done by colleagues on the processing side, an awful lot of people have got permissions, and rightly so, but because of the challenges of getting accommodation in Ireland, be it HAP-----

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