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 same sorts of pressures that were experienced by IPAS were experienced by the Ukraine team. At one point they were having to accommodate hundreds of additional people each day. In the past year, the number of people in State-contracted centres has come down dramatically from almost 60,000 in November 2023 to approximately 20,000 now. Those contracts have been closed off as people leave centres and, as contracts come up for renewal they are renegotiated, generally for short periods because it is a falling requirement.
Typically, the contracts are for between three and six months. There is then obviously increased opportunity-----
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