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. Doncha O'Sullivan:
The new international protection Bill specifically provides for new multidisciplinary teams that will work to try to grapple with that challenging question of exactly what age the person is and to make a fair assessment which is safe for that person. That will be a mixture of professionals doing that work. As the Secretary General said, ultimately it is a difficult call when we are talking about whether a person is 17, 18 or 19 years of age. It receives a lot of attention from all of the agencies involved because it is an important decision.
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