Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

People will come to our country seeking international protection because our economy is improving and we are rightly seen as a nation that cares. Should the State be running these reception centres directly as opposed to contracting private companies? While it might be something for the longer term, should the State build purpose-built reception centres and run them or at least own them or enter a service level agreement with an organisation to run them? It would give us more control and certainty. It would not just be a yearly contract where at the end of a year the owner of the facility could just decide not to renew it possibly leaving a couple of hundred people on the street. It would bring certainty if we owned the facilities and had more control over the standards and what happens.