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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: It is important for people to know that their deportation order is an ongoing system.
- 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?