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:
We did on exercise on it, yes. There were between 10,000 and 11,000 people on our books whose cases still were not processed but when we wrote to them and to their legal advisers, we found that the real, live caseload was between 5,000 and 6,000 people. Most of those would have been outside of the direct provision system.