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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: That is all right. I can understand that. At official level, however, the Department is obviously in contact with officials in other European countries about all this and it is part of a giant effort in Europe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Okay. If we look at the 2022 figures, decisions were made on 4,496 people and 1,283 were granted status within the year, I take it. Some 69 people were granted subsidiary protection, 2,081 were granted permission to remain, 94 were deemed inadmissible and 869 were refused. Were those 869 deported?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I will put the question another way. Does the figure of those who were deported and the numbers that can be verified who left voluntarily match up? Do they give 869?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: What percentage does it give?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is it 10% or 40%?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: -----is what is being done to assess other countries from where there may be a significant number of people coming that maybe there is a question mark over? I will preface that by saying-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Of course it does. That is why I am asking Ms McPhillips.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: What percentage can Mr. O'Sullivan verify? What percentage of that 869 were refused? I am asking a very specific question in this regard. Certain people left voluntarily. Mr. O'Sullivan explained earlier that there is a voluntary scheme they can go under and that it can be enforced. What percentage of the 869 can be verified? We can take that year or any year. Generally, what is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Would the 2% have returned immediately?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Some people working in the Department of Social Protection have told me that, with regard to that 30%, which is a very high figure, a lot of information is shared on social media networks. Has there been a falloff from that 30% since the announcement that social welfare rates are being cut from €238 to €38.80 per week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Mr. O'Sullivan might say those figures again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: There were 80. Those are people who left. That is over 500.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: There were more than 800, however.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Okay. What happened with the 720?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: What happens then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: People obviously cannot claim social welfare or anything like that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: People can be arrested.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: What percentage of those people have been arrested?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Do the representatives have no way of knowing whether they are out of the State or not at that point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: It is important for people to know that their deportation order is an ongoing system.