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:
When somebody comes to the end of the process, unless there are some particular humanitarian reasons why they should remain, we expect that they will leave. Our preference is that they leave voluntarily. We put an awful lot of work into encouraging people to do so. About 1,300 people have left voluntarily this year. We have a new scheme at the moment where we are increasing the amount of funding to try to encourage people to take up that option because it is much cheaper and easier for everyone if they do so. If people do not take that option, in most cases a deportation order will be made for them and in most cases people comply with that order and leave.
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