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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: What is the longest period for which someone has been in direct provision?
- 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 more than 16 years.
- 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 that case, the status has been granted, has it?
- 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 there somebody longer, therefore, with status?
- 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: Have a number of people been there for more than ten years?
- 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: Generally, what is the longest period these cases are taking to be processed? Mr. McCarthy's Department has to provide the accommodation and the Department of Justice has to process the applications. Obviously, there is a regular back-and-forth between them on all this. What is the longest period the cases are taking to be processed?
- 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: Do we have a figure for the number that have taken more than five years?
- 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 a long time. Is there any indication of the breakdown of that? Do all those cases not yet have status?
- 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: Approximately 1,700 people have been in direct provision for more than five years-----
- 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 one person has been there for more than 16 years.
- 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: This underlines the need, for the benefit for everybody including the people seeking protection, that the process be accelerated. That would take the pressure off the Department by freeing up accommodation. For those people who will be successful, their cases need to be processed quickly, but also to free up accommodation.
- 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 understand that but they are in a position to do so.
- 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: It is difficult. For that 5,000-plus figure who have status, the immediate step has to be to try to help them to integrate into communities.
- 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: What is the total number of direct provision centres, between emergency and the other type?
- 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 emergency centres tend to be smaller ones. Is that correct?
- 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: What is the inspection rate for them? Does someone inspect them all annually?
- 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: HIQA will inspect the 46 designated centres but not the emergency ones. What is the inspection regime for them?
- 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 trying to understand the process here. One type of centre is contracted and money is paid, and it is important we are getting value for money here. Does a departmental official go out, perhaps accommodated by somebody from the Office of Public Works, OPW, whether a technician, a clerk of works, an architect or an engineer? Who goes out to inspect them? Someone might have a large...
- 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: Yes.
- 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 thank Mr. McCarthy.