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

Photo of James GeogheganJames Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)

I am not putting this on. I am absolutely astonished that there is no one in this room responsible for dealing with every single international protection applicant who comes into this State and that Ms McPhillips does not know the legal position as to whether her Department may or may not have a legal responsibility to carry out an age assessment, when she has already acknowledged that this is such an important issue as it relates to safeguarding of children and the potential mingling of adults with children in unaccompanied minor settings.

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