Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project
1:30 pm
Mr. Brian Purcell:
What I am saying is that this will happen in stages. Before we can move away from direct provision, we must first reduce the numbers. I suppose we could just take the numbers in direct provision and move them out of it, but we are not in a position to do that.