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
Ms Oonagh McPhillips:
I do not think so. It is better now, and the joined-up aspect of the system certainly makes sense to us. However, that was the decision taken, and we made the best of it. We worked very closely, and continue to work very closely, with our colleagues who transferred to the Department of children. I would make the point that, in 2020, roughly 50 or 60 people went to the Department of children, with about €120 million of a budget, and it was considerably larger when it returned to us. The team did an amazing job over the last few years. Certainly, from now going forward and into the pact arrangements, it is definitely useful to have it all together.
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