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- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
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Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: That is fair enough. Mr. Waters referred to the rates at which refugee status is granted, and I will refer to them now. The figure I have for 2011 is 3.3%, that for 2012 is 5.6%, and that for 2013 is 11.4%. Could Mr. Waters give me an idea of the numbers for 2014 and 2015 to date? He mentioned a rise to 12.6%. Could he explain this? Why has there been a rise from 3.3% to over 12%?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: The last figures I saw, which were contained in a reply to a parliamentary question and were from the Department, indicated that the increase in asylum applicants was attributable to immigration from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: That does not quite equate with what Mr. Waters just said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: What is the increase from last year? Is the total 3,800?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Is Mr. Waters saying Bangladesh and Pakistan account for 45% of the applications?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Let us stick with that. People have intimated to me that some of the individuals coming from Pakistan and Bangladesh have already been processed in the UK system. What they do is come to Northern Ireland, for example, and cross the Border, given the free travel area. Has Mr. Waters encountered this himself?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I do not either. That is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
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Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I am actually citing the countries that the Department cited to me; that is why I am mentioning them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
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Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Surely it is a huge waste of resources when one considers the applicants have already gone through the UK process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I will tell you where I am coming from. My view is probably shared universally and almost certainly within the Department. There is a refugee crisis in Europe right now and we have finite resources. We have not seen the kinds of pressures that Germany, for example, is experiencing. The city of Berlin is processing 1,000 people per day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: When Mr. Waters says something like that to me, I think about the people who are actually genuine refugees who deserve attention and accommodation and deserve to have governments look at them differently. Frankly, what we are dealing with here seems to be people who are applying for refugee status spuriously in many cases. That seems to have been a hallmark of our system down through the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I referred to a number of nationalities mentioned in the responses I received from the Department. Members of the public would ask, in the context of the common travel area and those individuals applying for asylum, how different it will be under the new system. While the figure of 3,800 is not massive in comparison with other European countries, it is growing quite considerably.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: It has grown fourfold in two years. What will the difference be in the treatment of people who were not fully processed in the UK system but who come here through Northern Ireland once the aforementioned legislation is enacted?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: The onus on the individuals effectively to deport themselves is not going to change with this legislation. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
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Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Does Mr. Waters have any idea of the percentage of people who leave the country on foot of a deportation order?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Yes, but the Department did an exercise and has a fair idea of the figures. What figure did the Department come up with?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Is Mr. Waters saying that half of them left?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: When was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I am going to keep going, given that there is no-one else here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Will Mr. Waters give the committee an idea of the position in terms of the prison population and existing capacity? The Irish Prison Service reports that in 2007, the average number of prisoners in custody was 3,300. It peaked in 2011 at 4,390, while the figure in 2014 was 3,915. Where are we now when it comes to the average number of prisoners in custody and what is our capacity? Has the...