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:

It is two different things. We cannot impose direct provision standards on private hotel owners. What we can say, in circumstances where there is a clear breach of what we anticipate as being the requirements of someone providing emergency accommodation, is that we will withdraw from using that hotel or facility. We believe that it is certainly possible for these facilities to meet our contractual requirements, but we cannot say to them that they have to meet all the standards that come with being a direct provision centre. That is the difference.

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