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:
I want to correct a figure that was given earlier in answer to a question from Deputy Connolly. We said there were 957 children in the direct provision centre. The figure is greater than that because 957 is the number of children of schoolgoing age. The full number is 1,630.