Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality

9:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

As the Deputy knows and as I said earlier, it is quite clear that we will well exceed the budget foreseen for the whole year. We are working on a figure of €95 million to €100 million, but it is still early in the year. It is really important to understand the point I made about the asylum system. Literally, people turn up at the airport-----