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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: I am not opening that conversation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: I am aware that Mediterranean countries have a huge influx from Africa. We understand that. As part of the European Union, I am trying to get a sense of what is happening. I am trying to get the picture. It is the first time I heard those figures. There are figures bandied about. In terms of what we are doing, as compared to the west or the 15 European countries before the last big...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: All of that would be determined today by the war.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: The Department has obviously looked at projections for the year in terms of what this may look like come the end of December. What are we looking at in terms of sheer numbers in the Ukrainian situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Of course, on the basis of the war and what is happening in terms of the Russian invasion.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Will the Secretary General give me some figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: An additional 50,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: In terms of the IPAS, situation, there are 19,000. It is coming up near 20,000 now, from approximately 7,000. What if the current rate continues there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Extra?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: That would bring us to 32,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Those figures are very low from that, as the Secretary General states, 90 per month. We are looking at the Department accommodating 170,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: From 7,000, let us say, 12 months ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: That is the scale of what we are looking at here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: There is a high percentage of adult Ukrainians now working. I can see, even on the briefing notes, the number has gone up 1,000 in the past couple of weeks. There are now in excess of 13,000 people who are working. That is a success story as well. Well done to everyone on that. We want to try to assist them as much as we can.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: On the 5,000 people who are stuck in direct provision who have status under the different categories, which I am always trying to get my head around, they could be working in the community and living independently. Is the biggest barrier to that private rental accommodation and accommodation generally? Is housing the issue for those 5,000 people?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: And if you are in low-paid employment-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Many of those working outside of the centres would be in low-paid employment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: So that is understandable.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: The Department probably has a role in flagging up the direction things are going. There are 170,000 people, the accommodation situation is tightening and, added to that, per head of population, we are taking more than three times what France is taking. None of this is an argument to not help, by the way. We have to do everything we can. Is Mr. McCarthy, as Secretary General of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Is it Mr. McCarthy’s understanding that this is being raised at European level?