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:
That is correct. This has to be seen through the lens that from early 2022 to the end of 2023, we went from 7,000 beds to 27,000 beds. As the Secretary General outlined, especially with the Ukraine numbers that were coming in, it was a time when a massive priority was put on getting beds as quickly as humanly possible. The civil servants and communities involved in that deserve credit for the work that was done. Now, we are in a phase of getting control of the system.
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