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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: That is a huge number.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Has the Department got adequate staff to deal with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: The Department has in the region of 400 at the moment, is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: What is the target again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I see that. It was 143 in 2019.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I see those figures in the notes. What timescale has been set to try to get it up to 480?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Will those positions mainly be deployed to clear some of the backlogs in the system that we have just spoken about?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Will the majority of those extra people brought in be working on dealing-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Will they be particularly dealing with some of the ones that are over-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Are people in the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform holding it up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: It is good to hear that. Obviously, a huge burden is put on the system if an organisation is short-staffed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: But the Department could be writing to an address that is three or four years old, or more.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Is the Garda engaging where somebody does not co-operate or is absent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Are significant numbers not co-operating?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Are there hundreds?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: A few hundred not co-operating.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: I will just revert to the figures in terms of decisions. In 2022, some 10,217 decisions were outstanding from a total of 13,651 applications. In 2023 there was an improvement in that there were 13,227 applications-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: -----and 4,207 were not-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: Some 4,207 cases were not processed.