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:
There are circumstances where people have every right to remain in the country but do not move on. For example, some programme refugees housed in one of our emergency reception and orientation centres have been offered other types of accommodation but have refused them because they want to remain in the centre. We must start to make greater efforts to insist that people accept the alternative accommodation they are offered. They cannot remain in our centres because we are under too much pressure.
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