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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I acknowledge the work of the Department, which is dealing with a very difficult situation in trying to manage all that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: We will suspend the meeting for ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I will revert to the processing of applications for a moment. In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, 3,434 decisions were made. In 2022, it rose to 4,988. In 2023, 9,000 decisions were made. If you look at the numbers that are applying, 92% of cases decided in 2022 were processed within three years so 8% are taking longer than three years which is an extraordinary length of time; 62% of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: The Department's brief says it was 15 months. I have it in front of me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: It was 18 months in 2022, but the median time was down to 15 months in 2023 according to the brief.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: What is the target, which is the specific question I am asking you?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is there a target to reduce that further - that median time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Sorry, the target is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Okay, 1,400 per month. I refer to the median time for processing applications. I presume that is from beginning to end.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: What I am trying to understand is if this is beginning to end median time? I understand some of it will be very long, and some very short but are we talking about-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: That is before you go to any appeal?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: The Department has a target that was five months in 2023. That was the figure it gave - the median processing time for appeals. It was down from 15 months at the start of 2022 to five months in 2023. That is what the briefing note says. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I know it is the median but it is an extraordinary length of time. How many are over three years? The figure that is given is that 92% of cases are decided-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: -----in less than three years. What does the 8% represent? Are we talking about around 1,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: There are over 40 cases that are going on nine years old now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: So 48 are nine years old.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Sorry, I just want to dwell on this for a second. What is the main problem there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: It is an executive area.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: With regard to some of those 48 cases, would it be the case that there are some of those who are unco-operative?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: The 48 cases are in direct provision, and they have not had a first decision yet. These have not even gone near appeal yet.