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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Some 700 are coming in, but how many are due to retire in the same period? That is the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I have a couple of questions before we conclude. On the fines on the airlines, I am trying to understand how a fine would be imposed if the asylum seeker, we will say mingles or whatever, and is confused about which airplane they got off and the first place they show up is at the immigration desk. How is the airline they came on picked out? How is that resolved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: On the percentage of fines, is it mainly Dublin Airport?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: How about Cork or Shannon airports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: None.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: What about the unmanned airports? Have Garda personnel been deployed to one of those?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank Ms McPhillips for that. I wish to ask about the domestic violence refuges. This is being held up by Ms McPhillips's Department. I refer to the nine new domestic violence centres, which are badly needed. I am in a county where there is none, namely, County Laois. There is none in Offaly. Victims of domestic violence and children sometimes are going long distances and out of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: So we have a little over a quarter. We have about 27% or 28% of what we need. There should be 490 and that is a minimum.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I am concerned about building up the capacity. I am not trying to nail this on Ms McPhillips. It is not that we are walking, rather, we seem to be slow marching on this. We need nine centres for victims of domestic violence. We know the problems that are occurring. I see some of them when constituents come in about other matters but they may also be victims of domestic violence. As I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: We need to be moving it along in respect of Laois. Is the money there? There is no hold-up of money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: The convention has an article in it that states victims of domestic violence should not have to travel more than 30 minutes to a refuge centre. We have people who are out of the county and could be for weeks with situations like that. It obviously creates problems because victims perhaps feel they have to go back to get the children back in to school and perhaps move back into a potentially...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Before Mr. O’Callaghan comes in, Ms McPhillips will appreciate that it is not just the county that is without a refuge. There is a whole midlands area without a place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Heads need to be knocked together. The county council is involved and has identified sites. If Ms McPhillips comes in and ask me what she can do in her position in the Department, it is to try to push this on to get the centre in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: In three locations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Mr. O'Callaghan wants to get it in place and I know procedures have to be gone through. I would ask that red tape and procedures be minimised and not just to wait for somebody else to make another decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I ask Mr. O’Callaghan and Ms McPhillips to take that away. I have raised it consistently and it is brought up regularly to me. I refer to whatever hold-ups may be at local level. I know the county councillors and the county management team are anxious to get this in place. I know the people who provide the service at Laois Domestic Abuse Service and Marna, who heads it up, are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: That concludes the questioning, the witnesses will be happy to hear. I acknowledge the work of the Department and particularly the improvements in the international protection piece. We want to try to do better for people. People are stuck in the system for a long time and it is not good for anybody.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: It means that there are other people on the street. Obviously, people come here who are not entitled to be here and the Department has to do its job regarding that as well, and that is fine. However, we are dealing with a very urgent situation. Hopefully, the Ukrainian situation will improve and that will take some pressure off. I acknowledge the improvements. I ask the witnesses to give...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: -----and general information around-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: It is a big improvement since the last time we checked and I want to acknowledge that.