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:
From a value-for-money perspective, and the rate card we mentioned previously, we have renegotiated over 100 contracts with the rate card, and they have derived savings of over €60 million on a per annum basis. We have reduced the per-person-per-night rate on those 100-plus contracts on average by 23%. We are seeing a lot of gains in those areas, and not just on the State side.
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