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:
No. We would have a very strict inspection regime. I mentioned previously that we have done over 300 inspections so far in 2025. We also have the HIQA inspection regime, which inspected over 50 centres in 2024 and should do the same again in 2025. That regime includes any information that is brought to light or brought to us. If contractors do not meet the standard required, they are given time to rectify that, and if they do not rectify it quickly enough, we dock their payment by 10%. If they do not rectify it after that, we will then move to terminating. We have terminated 17 contracts so far this year, proving we have a strict system in place. We will maintain that.
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