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:
The evidence we have that people are not by and large here is fairly convincing because we get the Garda to do checks on them for the purpose of finding them for deportation orders. We have given the numbers in relation to deportations and voluntary returns. They are verified. There is another group whose circumstances have not been verified, but the Garda does checks on them from time to time to see whether they are here and in receipt of social welfare. If “No” is the answer to each check, the evidence will be that they have moved on.
The Border is obviously an issue here as well. People come in over the Border-----
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