Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

The Garda runs operations from time to time. That would be a matter for the Garda. I referred earlier to the fact that quite a lot of the negative decisions arise from the fact that the person has not been engaging with the international protection process at all. In other words, they have gone away. Their correspondence is not being responded to. The very reason for the decision in the first place may be that they are no longer here so when we go to execute the deportation order, we cannot because they are no longer here.

That is a significant portion.