Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:30 am
Mr. Richard Dixon:
The overall grant rate in 2022 was exceptionally high at 80%. That reflects the impact of the strand of the regularisation scheme as well as the follow-on from Covid. The grant rate in 2023 was 38%. For comparison, across Europe it was 48%, so our grant rate is slightly below what we have seen in the rest of Europe.