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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Yes, if members are happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: I have not got in yet either so I am happy enough to proceed for another ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Sorry, I will chair the meeting. If Deputy Murphy wants to come in before the break, I will allow her to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: I will suspend the meeting for ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: To revert to accommodation for Ukrainians, a lot has been said already about it. In terms of the cost, Mr. McCarthy outlined the costs. Sorry, does Deputy Kelly want to come back in?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Okay. As regards the costs Mr. McCarthy outlined earlier, it was over €70 per head for private providers and over €30 for something else. Can McCarthy give us those figures again?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: At €76, it is substantial.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: I understand that the Department could not magic-up new buildings or acquire new buildings or whatever and have State-run facilities staffed and up and running in a matter of weeks or even months, but there is a substantial differential. I am looking at the briefing notes that the Department provided. If one looks at the costs for international protection, the figure for 2022 was...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: So €1.49 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Of course, €1.49 billion. Okay. There is a White Paper. There was discussion around this and there were recommendations. A commission was put in place. Where is that at in terms of moving to try to acquire? Presumably, these facilities will have to be bought because if we are waiting to build them, it could take five, six or seven years to get them in place, given the current...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Is Thornton Hall one of those?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: The land was bought when Senator McDowell was Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and has been growing grass and thistles since then.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: It might be put to use after all those years. Sorry, Mr. Delaney may go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Did Mr. Delaney refer to 14,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Build or buy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: Typically, what is the Department looking at? Is it large hotels?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Brian Stanley: There is a huge problem I wish to address. We have to help those who are genuinely fleeing war and persecution, or famine, but, if you take County Laois, for example, the hotel in Monasterevin, which is a few hundred yards over the Kildare border and served a lot of north Laois, is gone for international protection use. The Montague Hotel, which is located on the old Dublin to Limerick and...