Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

They have completed their process. These are people who have a right to remain. We are putting in place supports, and we have in place supports, to assist them in moving on. On the Deputy's question as to what we are doing to raise the issue, we identified it as an important issue in terms of the good functional operation of the international protection system. We need a better means of assisting those people in moving on and out of the international protection system.