David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

At local authority level, weekly meetings take place to look at all the cases in which people have ended up in emergency accommodation or been classed as homeless. What work is done by the Department on a weekly basis with regard to the 10.5% cohort or the 20% cohort I have mentioned? I understand that in some cases, there may be judicial reviews or there may be other issues. Are the cases of long-term residents of direct provision centres the subject of ongoing examination to see what can be done and what the position is with such cases? Is an assessment made of whether we are waiting for information from them, or they need to take the next step? What interventions are made by the Department or by RIA to look at helping and assisting the applications to be processed more quickly in order that people do not end up waiting for between four and seven years, or longer?