Ms Sue Conlan:

No, they are not. There was an inspection of Mount Trenchard in March which bears little relationship to the damage that is being done to the men in that type of accommodation centre. In November 2013, there was an inspection of Lissywollen in Athlone, and it did not report on what the residents knew the reality to be. A falsified account was given of what goes on at the centre. This is not to say the inspections never pick up some of the key issues. However, given the limitations of the remit, and given that the inspectors do not speak to the people who know what it is like to live there, they very rarely pick up the reality of the situations.