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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I believe in the point of view of people in the system and those who are funding the system overall. They have a reasonable expectation that there would be objectives in place regarding how long the process will take, notwithstanding the complexities to which Mr. Purcell has alluded and of which I am aware. Let me move on to the operation of the process overall. As Mr. Purcell rightly...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Could I interrupt Mr. Purcell in regard to those two figures? He stated approximately 7,000 decisions were made last year. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Some 25,000. Does Mr. Purcell have the figures for the previous year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Valid-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Let me make sure I have the figures correct. In 2010, there were 6,394 and in 2011 there were 10,774, and in 2012 there were approximately 25,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Does Mr. Purcell have the average processing time for applications over the period in question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Does Mr. Purcell know the time involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I will revert to the figure made earlier on the smaller number of asylum seekers. It is reasonable that asylum seekers and those funding the process would know how long the entire process takes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I will reserve my comments on chapter 15 until we reach the appropriate point in the meeting. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the material supplied and their work in the Department and the Chief State Solicitor's office. The three areas of the Vote on which I want to focus my questioning are the cost of the citizenship and asylum seeking application process, free legal aid and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Will Mr. Purcell explain the reason those legal expenses were incurred?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Is that a figure that could have been foreseen earlier in the year, given the number of years the office has been in operation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Will Mr. Purcell detail the target times the Department has in place for the handling of asylum seeker requests and, separately, the handling of citizenship applications?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Given what Mr. Purcell has just said, will he inform me of the current position on the target time for dealing with an initial asylum application? What is the position on the target time applying to the leave to remain period to which he referred?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: We should have that meeting as soon as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I would be entirely supportive of such a decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I wish to raise a point which relates to last week's meeting. I requested that the Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection provide the committee with further figures regarding the interview rates for people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance. Some figures were presented to us relating to last summer. We asked if more up-to-date information could be provided. I assume...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: In the context of last week's discussion regarding the table and the number of people who were in receipt of allowances and the difficulties arising, getting the information about the number of people who turn up for interview is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the witnesses for coming in to speak to us. I am sorry I missed the early part of Dr. Barrett’s presentation. I was at another meeting but I might get a copy of his comments afterwards. While we have touched on the level of Europe’s crisis, with chronic unemployment and low levels of growth, it is worth acknowledging that what people thought was going to happen 12 or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: It is important to counter the fact of our terrible difficulty with the fact that the even greater difficulty which some thought likely has not happened. I have three questions on that point. Professor Laffan spoke about the politics of constrained choice. Would we not be dealing with that anyway? Regardless of the nature of the eurozone, or what the EU will look like, globalisation is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I will have some supplementary questions.