Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)

9:00 am

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

I appreciate that. I am just trying to get a sense of the real long-term policy. On the one hand, the Department is ruling out actual integration, but, on the other, it seems to have been scared off the process of acquiring buildings for fear of threats in local communities. That is why I prefaced my remarks. As a society, are we not moving into that space? We saw what happened in Ballaghaderreen and elsewhere. Is that it? Are we moving away and saying there are no other options? On what is happening in the camp in Mosney, obviously improvements have been made, but, knowing the standard of facilities there, was it humane from the get-go?

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