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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am talking about public funds, per capitaor however it was allocated,-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: -----down to Templemore that went into 50 accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: There is no misunderstanding about this. It is public funds going in, and we have a Commissioner or somebody under the Commissioner saying that is right but they were not getting enough money from Government and they were entitled to invest this, open up accounts and do what we want with it. I read that out, did I not?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: What is the reaction of the Department of Justice and Equality to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: We are not looking at legacy issues here. This is something that went on and on. As ordinary TDs we are here struggling, reading lots of documentation and trying to hold the system to account as best we can. The Department officials are the ones with the responsibility and the resources. Is it correct that the Department was made aware of this way back - Mr. Waters has given the timeline...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Department undertook a trawl.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: What steps were taken?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: I will leave those questions until I read in detail Mr. Barrett's report, which I have only sped-read, and I will come back to the officials. I have a great difficulty in that they only looked at certain issues and alarm bells did not go off and make them say that they should look back and see. I will move on to direct provision. Direct provision was meant to be a temporary measure when...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: How many are in direct provision?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: One in six of those has status and remains in direct provision.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: How long are they in that position?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: Why not? It is important to know that there are that many refugees with status still in direct provision. How long have they been in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: I understand that but it is a little disingenuous to say they have a choice whether to go into direct provision or not, which is a theme in the documentation that I have read. Am I right that asylum seekers do not have to go into direct provision? They have a choice.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: They really have no choice.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: Wait now. If they do not go in, they get no payments.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is correct. Somebody looks after them. They do not have access to funds. If somebody adopts them, as it were, and looks after them, they can stay. They are the lucky ones. Otherwise-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is right.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am not arguing with Mr. Waters. I am merely trying to put this in perspective, where we have direct provision which was supposed to be temporary.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: Just one second, that was 2000. It is 2017 and we still have persons in direct provision for longer than five years.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) Catherine Connolly: I accept the figure has reduced, but am I correct in saying that a substantial number are still there longer than five years?