Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

I might ask my colleague, Mr. Martin, to respond but before he does, we did find ourselves in a situation where applications continued to come in, albeit at a very low level. We are considering several options, for example, that perhaps we would make the people in question wards of court so that we can make the payments because they are entitled to the money, we are anxious to pay, time is passing and we want to do whatever we can to make sure they get paid.