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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Our guests can take it that, because it is on the record, the Department has been asked.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I might ask Deputy MacSharry-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I accept what Deputy Jonathan O'Brien is saying. I will give my view at this point. When Deputy MacSharry has completed his questioning, we will make a decision, but from where I, as Chairman, sit, if allegations of criminality have been made, I will direct that the committee send them to the Garda Síochána directly because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: No. Not only are the questions directed at Mr. O'Driscoll to make inquiries, but I am the Chairman of the committee and that request to him is coming through me. I will seek assistance from the committee but, given the nature of what has been said, I cannot ignore it. If a suggestion of criminality is made at a meeting that I am chairing, I have a duty to send a transcript of what has been...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I will have to send a transcript. I will be sending the transcript of what has been said to the Garda Commissioner because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I cannot have that said at the Committee of Public Accounts. If there is substance, I cannot stop it, but if it is said at the Committee of Public Accounts on the public record, I have a duty as Chairman, given the suggestion of criminality, to send the transcript to the Garda Commissioner for his action afterwards. I just want us all to understand. Mr. O'Driscoll will consider doing the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: The Deputy is done for the moment, but he is due to come in again. As soon as the transcript is available, I am insisting that it be sent to the Garda Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I will say for the benefit of the Secretary General and the Deputy that, regardless of what the Department does, these suggestions have been made at a meeting that I chair and I will send the transcript to the Garda Commissioner. The Secretary General is free to do what he chooses, but I know what I will do as Chairman. We will move on. Deputy Catherine Murphy has had to leave for a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: This is the Deputy's final question. He will be able to come in a second time if he wants.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Driscoll mentioned the issue of length of time at the various centres. Will he send us a schedule? Can he tell us how many people are in the system for less than 12 months, between one and two years, between two and three years, between three and four and so on? What is the longest period that people are currently in the system? Has anyone been there beyond six or seven years? What...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Please call them out. We will ask Mr. O'Driscoll to circulate the details as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: If he is happy to do so, can Mr. O'Driscoll pass that on to the secretariat and we will circulate it in due course? That is provided there is nothing confidential in it. If there is, perhaps he could read out the key figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. O'Driscoll to provide the figures. We will ask our staff to circulate the table to the members shortly. People can refer to it as the meeting progresses. The next speaker is Deputy O'Brien, who will be followed by Deputy Cullinane.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: For the information of people watching, I thank the witnesses for the schedule they circulated regarding the number of people in direct provision and asylum centres. We will note and publish this today. We asked for figures on the various lengths of stay and this relates to the 6,093 people in the centres, 289 of whom have been there for more than four years, 146 for more than five years,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: It is €68,000. We have it on our documentation from the last time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: When that note is sent the committee, perhaps it could include details of the average times going back over the past decade. I was here years ago, when the numbers were much higher, and the same thing was said verbatim. We were told that the numbers were dropping and the service was getting there. We have been here before. Five years ago, I heard Ministers saying verbatim what Mr. Kirrane...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: It is individuals.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I have a few brief questions and will be very concise. With reference to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, there is a heading which refers to compensation for personal injuries criminally inflicted. Are they the same?