Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I will ask Ms McPhillips about the investigation that was carried out by the UK. Obviously, the UK would have very sophisticated security and intelligence, through its agency, MI6. It has a greater reach and intelligence capacity. How would the Department do a background check on sizeable numbers of people from the likes of China? Do we have the capacity to do so?