Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

From September 2017 to September 2018, we put in place 880 new places in nine new centres. We are doing tenders throughout the country at the present time. We are doing it on a regional basis to provide new accommodation centres for the level of demand we are experiencing but, as we discussed earlier in regard to the asylum side as distinct from the refugee side, we find it very difficult to predict the number of people who will turn up and seek accommodation. People turn up at Dublin Airport, Burgh Quay or elsewhere and we have to accommodate them that night. It is not something we can plan for. It is quite different in the refugee programme, where we have a sense of who is coming-----