Departmental Expenditure

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Questions (272)

Patrick Costello

Question:

272. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice the total cost to the State of running Immigration Service Delivery, previously Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, by year, from 2013 to date, excluding the International Protection Office service delivery. [15838/23]

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Written answers

Minister for Justice

It has not been possible to collate the information requested by the Deputy in the time allowed. I will write to the Deputy directly when the information is to hand.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51:

The information requested by the Deputy from 2013 to 2019 can be found in the table below.

Year	ISD Costs €000’s
2013	34,329
2014	38,581
2015	36,729
2016	39,006
2017	43,188
2018	50,278
2019	54,936

In 2020, the Department of Justice implemented a transformation programme moving from a subject-based structure to a functional operating model. As a result, the costs from 2020 onward are not directly comparable with the costs incurred pre-transformation as a number of expenditure areas were restructured as core departmental functions. The costs from 2020 are as follows:

Year	ISD Costs €000’s
2020	54,570
2021	51,838
2022	59,031

In 2020 as part of the transformation programme, International Protection Office salary costs were included in ISD administration salaries and an estimated adjustment has been made to exclude those vales from the total costs.

2022 includes the cost related to the emergency response to the Ukraine crisis (approximately €4.2m).

I hope this information will be of assistance to you.