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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: 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...
- 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: For Ukraine alone.
- 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: We are looking at nearly €2.2 billion in total. That is a large amount of money. The Exchequer figures are good at the moment, but if there was a dip in the economy - we have seen a dip in some revenue streams in the first quarter of this year, for example, corporation tax, and they may or may not recover - or it tilted in the wrong direction, trying to fund this €2.2 billion...
- 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: Day, not May.
- 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: That report has been in place for a number of years. Let us act on it. Mr. McCarthy has provided a progress report. Perhaps he could revert to the committee with a note providing further details. Another issue that arises-----
- 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 were two main reasons for them.
- 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 another area of concern. We want to help genuine applicants, and I understand that takes time. We have been told this morning of it taking 16 months, with an average time of 14 months. That is certainly different information than we have seen in answers to questions in other forums. The impression given to the public is that it only takes a number of weeks. I understand there is...
- 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: Has that person's application been decided on?
- 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 has been decided on and the person has received status, but there are more than 100 applicants that have received negative decisions and gone through the appeals process, if I heard what the witnesses outlined to us correctly.
- 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: Unfortunately, my hearing is not always 100%.
- 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: What happens if their applications have been refused?
- 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.
- 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: “Move on”, but they have been refused the right to stay in Ireland. Move on to where?