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:

That is really a question for IPAS and its ability to scale up. It is difficult work to scale up in terms of obtaining accommodation. We have a lot in which we feel we could deploy more resources and maintain high productivity because, as Ms Mullins outlined, we have brought a lot of modernisation to the process. We feel we can continue to increase our output. We are aiming to get to 1,000 decisions a month by the end of the year which is a really significant increase on what we would have done in recent years. However, the accommodation system’s ability to manage is really a question for the guests at the next session.