Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin McCarthy:
Again, we can give the Deputy a breakdown of the nationalities of origin, but a wide range is involved in this regard. Overall, it would seem that migration flows are significantly on the increase. As I mentioned, this is an EU-wide phenomenon. During Covid-19 movement was much more restricted, so there was some level of pent-up potential movement.