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
Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:
There is some clarity required around it. In practice, the age assessment has been done by Tusla for many years de facto because it decides whether to admit someone to the process. We obviously engage, the lawyers make representations to us saying this person is actually a child and these cases get examined between us. The expectation is that the new legislation will fix it clearly and put a process around how that happens, with a multidisciplinary team.
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