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:
The intention is that there will be a multidisciplinary process. We will be engaged with the type of professional services that the Deputy is talking about. As things currently stand, where information comes to light of a documentary nature, such as getting a fingerprint hit from another country where someone applied as a 20-year-old, that is clearly fed into the process. Clearly, that will have a massive bearing on the determination of that person’s case. The idea in the pact is that there will be enhanced screening when people arrive to decide whether people are vulnerable, have special needs or can go through accelerated procedures. That part of the process will happen as a person arrives, rather than a few weeks later or when the case is arrived at. As we are running the front end of that process, it makes sense that we lead on that in a clearer way than is currently the case.
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