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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: But the Department could be writing to an address that is three or four years old, or more.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is the Garda engaging where somebody does not co-operate or is absent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Are significant numbers not co-operating?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Are there hundreds?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: A few hundred not co-operating.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I will just revert to the figures in terms of decisions. In 2022, some 10,217 decisions were outstanding from a total of 13,651 applications. In 2023 there was an improvement in that there were 13,227 applications-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: -----and 4,207 were not-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Some 4,207 cases were not processed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Out of that nearly 27,000 applications, a decision was not made on more than 14,400 cases by the end of the year. Ms McPhillips confirmed that to us. There are more than 19,000 cases in the system awaiting a decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I am just trying to understand the figures. Obviously it is a huge number. The year 2022 seemed to be very disappointing from the point of view that in the majority of cases, 10,000 out of 13,600, a decision was not made on them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is a concerted effort being made to deal with some of those long cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Could Ms McPhillips just briefly touch on the airlines? There are provisions whereby they can be fined if their ground staff do not carry out the required checks. How many fines were handed out to airlines in 2022 and 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: In other words, they were carrying people without sufficient checks being made to documentation at the point of departure from whatever country they were coming from.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Are those the fines issued to airlines? That is an extraordinarily high number – more than 900 each year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: It is a very high number – nearly 1,000 fines a year - being handed out to airlines. Do I take it that there is a fine for each individual case? Is that why the numbers are so high? Nearly 1,000 fines a year are handed out. My understanding is that the maximum-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I know. Is it correct that the maximum fine is €1,500?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is that enough?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is it normally paid within 28 days?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is the level of fines adequate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Does Ms McPhillips think it is adequate?