Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will give one example of what happens in emergency accommodation, which I have brought to the Minster's attention. I spoke directly to the Minister about this, so the Department is not unaware of it. Last January, people in emergency accommodation were bused for six or seven hours to another part of the country in order to facilitate a wedding in a venue being used for emergency accommodation. When the wedding was done and dusted, they were shipped back. They were treated appallingly. No Department, and no provider of emergency accommodation, could stand over how those people were treated. It was not an isolated incident; it has happened more than once. After I spoke to the Minister and informed him what had happened, I got an assurance that it would never happen again. Are the witnesses aware of those incidents? Can the committee be assured that such incidents have not happened in the past two or three months?