Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:

There are two staff resources there. There are the permanent civil servants, and their main job is to assemble the files for hearing. They are general Civil Service grades. Then there are the panel members, who are part-time in the main. They are lawyers, and they hear the cases in hearing. That money is going to fund a mix of both of those strands of work, if that makes sense.