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:

The Department of Justice is responsible for processing applications. It is putting a lot of work into achieving faster decision-making. The challenge from our point of view, as the providers of accommodation, has been that even where people are processed and receive a decision, we are not seeing them exit the international protection system as a result of wider constraints-----