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)
Okay. The witnesses gave a figure of 5,000 people who have had their application regularised and are currently in IPAS accommodation. I think that is probably on foot of a number of different issues, one being the housing crisis and the failure of the policy to provide own-door accommodation, etc. There are a number of issues going on there. Would Mr. Delaney agreet this is putting additional pressure on a system that is fundamentally creaking?
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