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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: If I recall correctly, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, or certainly the international protection accommodation service, IPAS, through briefings with different members, have indicated that the figure for those who apply for international protection at locations other than ports and airports could be as high as 40%, 50% or 60%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: That would mean that a significant number of people seeking international protection are not seeking it through airports or ports.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: If somebody does not seek international protection at an airport or port, it is likely he or she has entered the State by a means other than an airport or port.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Thankfully, we do not see our shores teeming with people who are washing up on this island, as we did see on some Mediterranean islands. The next potential entry point is the jurisdictional border with the United Kingdom. It is obviously an open border and nobody in this House would even suggest it should be anything other than that. The UK's policy has a significant impact on the way we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Is there any evidence that the UK's decision to change the way it wishes to treat international protection has created an internal flow within the common travel area?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: The question is about whether the Irish international protection services are considering applications that previously might have been registered for international protection in the United Kingdom outside the EU.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Would Ms McPhillips think that is a significant number?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: On that point, for those who present without documents, do we see a higher proportion in the non-important ports? In other words, is there a possibility that somebody would make an application under international protection in the UK system and then make an application under the Irish system without documentation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: That is an important point. Anybody who makes an application under the Irish system, their fingerprints are taken-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: -----and those fingerprints can be compared with previous applications made in the UK.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Okay. That is a very important point. I had not intended to spend so much time on that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: -----but it is important to say that. When we question the system, I do not think anybody is suggesting that Ireland should not live up to its international protection obligations or that we should not support people who are fleeing conflict and discrimination around the world. I will turn to the area-based interventions. Ms McPhillips spoke about the north-east inner city model, which...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I should thank the Department for the increased funding, which the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, announced. There are eight additional youth workers in Finglas, for example, under the youth justice programme, which is incredibly important. I was previously involved with the Kilmore West Youth Project as chair. The youth justice programme is fantastic. It makes a real difference...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Let me tell Ms McPhillips about the journey we made in Ballymun. In 2017, we wrote to the then Taoiseach asking for a north inner city model in our community. It was recommended that we would have a local authority-led intervention. In 2019, when I was Lord Mayor, I commissioned with the city council a report entitled Ballymun – A Brighter Future: A Plan to Tackle the Underlying...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: In 2021, that was presented to the Department of the Taoiseach. In 2022, the Taoiseach engaged very extensively with different groups in Ballymun and committed to funding that. We still do not have in place the senior officials group, which is the necessary element of it. Since then, Cherry Orchard has had access to that senior official group because of a specific incident that happened in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the structure; it has to have some degree of agility on the ground because it has to respond to local needs. There has to be a sustainable intervention. We cannot have officials from the Department of the Taoiseach going to every community in the country. That is not a sustainable model. We have put in the work in Ballymun, however. We have done it in the way recommended by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Within the Department, regardless of which Ministers are in place or whatever, I would appreciate her support in ensuring that is executed because it is really needed. We also need it rolled out in other communities around the country as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I ask the Chairman to indulge me. Unfortunately, I was in the House for Leaders' Questions. Like Deputy Verona Murphy, I would like to raise the issue of the University of Limerick.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I am just flagging it with the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Mark Darmody met with me and a number of representatives from the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party last week and the correspondence is from him. He has also met representatives of other political groupings across the House and, obviously-----