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
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
There are no other major issues such as this. This was a one-off, as far as Mr. Delaney is concerned.
The C and AG's chapter 10.60 states that a property that had contracted capacity was identified. It included three rooms that were not being used to accommodate IP applicants based on the single-occupancy daily rate of €169 for that property. I suppose it worked out that IPAS was being overcharged by at least €15,000 a month, which is €180,000 a year. There was a piece of work done by the Department that elaborated on that.
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