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 know from my conversations with Tusla, and at present it is the responsibility of Tusla to say whether a person is under age or an adult, it would give the benefit of the doubt where it has a doubt. In lots and lots of cases it would form a view that the person is an adult and return them to us. They are then accommodated in IPAS accommodation. If it is a very borderline case they would give the benefit of the doubt to the potential child and make a decision on that basis.
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