Professor Siobhán Mullally:

The reception conditions directive sets minimum standards and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has already issued policy statements on, for example, direct provision and other policy issues regarding health, mental health and access to education. Those are all areas the commission has said require significant reform, policy and legislative measures to address, in particular, regarding barriers to education and the long-term mental health and health impacts of direct provision on people including, in particular, families with children. We have made a number of statements. We published a policy document on that in the past, and that is an area on which we have continued to work. We would certainly see those as being areas in need of further reform and further measures to improve the reception conditions of people seeking protection in Ireland. All of that is on record and publicly available.