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:
We have monthly data on the number of people who receive status. The Department of Justice maintains good data on the numbers who have been refused status at any time. We can share that data with the committee. The exit rate of people with status who have been leaving international protection accommodation, for a good number of months last year, stood at in or around 50 or 60 a month. It has gone up to about 90 a month but it is still way off where it needs to be to free up capacity in the system.