Mr. Eugene Banks:

I will be as brief as possible. As people in State-provided accommodation get status, they are linked up, as far as possible, with the local authority and any local housing agency to see if they are eligible for the HAP scheme or to receive rent allowance. The managers in most of our direct provision centres will provide references if necessary. The NGO community has been given funding under the Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund, AMIF, programme to assist people to move out of State-provided accommodation into permanent homes.

All of that happens organically on the ground daily.