Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin

10:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

The granting rate for 2014 was 12.6%. Essentially, there is no mathematical formula for this. People present themselves and make an application, and they either qualify or they do not. At the finish, it is a function of where people are applying from. Our system in more recent years has seen very many more people applying from refugee-generating countries. That was not always the case. Hence, if people are applying in Ireland and are from countries that do generate refugees, they will obviously-----