Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Oonagh Buckley:
Specifically on that last question, in the autumn of last year, before we moved into moving people into the emergency accommodation model, some people were turned away because there was no room in the direct provision system. That is why we moved to the emergency accommodation model. We now have people in hotel beds in 25 locations. We are using emergency accommodation because we had to turn people away at one stage.
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