Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Kirrane:

The review itself was carried out by the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES. It comprises people seconded from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the Department to carry out economic evaluations. Perhaps that is where the reference comes from. It solely looks at economic perspectives rather than the wider picture of whether such a scheme should exist in the first place.