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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: I want to ask about the recruitment of gardaí and the age limit. Where did it come from? The maximum age for recruits is 35.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: I wonder why it is before the courts, to be perfectly honest.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: That is another matter. I have come across people from other jurisdictions who have returned here to live having emigrated for a time. They were police officers in other jurisdictions and have come back with immense experience. It is shocking that we cannot avail of it at a time when we are struggling to recruit. I will not press the issue because, as Ms McPhillips said, there is a case...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: They are always related.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: I will come back in on the investor programme. I presume that 94% of the 3,000 applications the Department has on hand are from China.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: A small number of the 3,000 applications would be from other jurisdictions. Are there any from Russia?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Has the Department cancelled any programmes of people from Russia?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: I will ask Ms McPhillips about the investigation that was carried out by the UK. Obviously, the UK would have very sophisticated security and intelligence, through its agency, MI6. It has a greater reach and intelligence capacity. How would the Department do a background check on sizeable numbers of people from the likes of China? Do we have the capacity to do so?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: What is self-declaration?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Briefly, because I have very little time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Who are they verified with?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Is China part of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Presumably with the UK it was the same profile of investors, was it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Right, okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: They would have been different. Presumably you would have read the report of the investigation they did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: You would have paid attention to some of those and factored them in in terms of vulnerabilities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Presumably, when you did your review, you included those kinds of findings. I refer to the most review that was done in advance of this being terminated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: I have a couple of other questions. Ernst & Young did the reconfiguration of the Department of Justice. They would have a good-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: Consultants would have been involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Catherine Murphy: They would have a very good understanding of the Department following that engagement.