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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: 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.
- 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: Returning to the overall projections, we have gone over the numbers we have at the moment. I have gone down through what is projected. The Department said it was 137,000 projected for Ukraine and we do not know because it depends on the conduct of 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: We are all hoping that there will be a ceasefire quickly but it does not look like it, unfortunately. The experts say that. Unfortunately, it looks like it will grind on for months and possibly years, unfortunately. It is awful that people have to flee this. You are looking at 32,000 in international protection accommodation services, IPAS, and 70,000 in 2023. That is the best...
- 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 you are probably looking at €1.5 billion to cover the cost.
- 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 just taking a quick glance at the figures, you are certainly looking at well in excess of €1.3 or €1.4 billion, given what it is costing at the moment,
- 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: Most of them are from those war-torn areas and are the people directly impacted, obviously. Do we have any figures for the people returning to Ukraine out of accommodation that the Department is providing? Are there signs of that happening? It is obviously small enough.
- 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: To put one myth to bed, are Ukrainians, whether or not they are working, paying for their meals?
- 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: Where people in direct provision are working, do they pay?