Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
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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:
Yes. One of the requirements we now have for new contracts and a renewal stage contract is that there must be a section 5 declaration from the local authority that the property in question is an exempted development and can accommodate international protection applicants. Therefore, whatever its previous status was is in the list that allows it to become an international protection accommodation centre. That process is now in place and is very strict. That is how we deal with those.
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