Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will keep to direct provision. It is a very challenging issue, not just for the Department and agencies but in respect of attitudes in society. We need to have a debate on it because everybody expresses outrage when they see the body of a dead child but, when people look for the provision of services, the outcry is "not here". People are outraged by images on Facebook but when faced with the reality of helping people there is a different reaction. A debate is needed, in a committee such as this and in wider society. These debates have happened in my own county of Meath over many years, with Mosney one of the largest centres. I have many happy memories of the area as a holiday camp as a child when cousins from Dublin would come out to see the country and breath the country air.