Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 126: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his response to a publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23704/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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My officials have studied the report which issued last month and have already met with the group, which commissioned it, to discuss its contents. The views expressed in the report are broadly critical of the direct provision system in this country for asylum seekers. The group recommend its abolition. It is clear at this stage, however, that no alternative system for the reception of asylum seekers here would be either affordable or appropriate in our current economic circumstances. There are, to be fair, points of detail raised in the report about the general administration of reception centres which either have been addressed by my officials or are in the course of being addressed.