Ms Oonagh Buckley:

It is purely commercial sensitivities. Thankfully, what happened in Moville and Rooskey is extremely rare. Generally speaking, as the Deputy is probably aware, there can be an initial push-back but once the direct provision centre opens, it all dies away. As the Deputy rightly points out, there is not a day's trouble from the vast majority of people. When I visited Mosney, I asked if there was much trouble. The people running the Mosney centre told me they had more trouble in a single bank holiday weekend when it was being run as a holiday centre than they had in the entire time it has been a direct provision centre.

We also need to manage the privacy of the people involved. Rumours go around relating to opening a direct provision centre and placing people there. We struggle to respond to that because we are obliged to maintain the privacy of the people involved. We often have to respond to queries from the media and interested individuals by saying that we cannot give them the information they are looking for. That is done in order to preserve the privacy of people in the international protection process.