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
Catherine Ardagh (Dublin South Central, Fianna Fail)
In relation to the Department's 2024 accounts, the C and AG's office discovered overcharging of VAT. The report highlighted that the State was clearly overcharged in the region of €7.4 million. Has the Department now fully recovered that amount? Is that provider still operating under IPAS contracts? If it is, why is it still operating? If the amount is not fully recovered, has the Department initiated legal proceedings to recover the overpayment of VAT?
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