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:
To explain the process and just to clarify, the Ukrainian boy who died was not an unaccompanied minor. I do not want to comment on a case, but I do not think the little girl who has been mentioned several times here this morning is within the international protection, IP, system at all. It is just to clarify that.
The other issue is in relation to the verification of age. That process is one for Tusla. What happens is that people come into the International Protection Office, IPO, to our staff. We have staff seconded from Tusla in the IPO or certainly we make arrangements to identify-----
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