Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman

Mr. Sean Garvey:

The way we structured our programme this year meant that we did it largely in spring and early autumn. We tend to avoid winter simply because road access can be difficult and so on. We also tend to avoid summer because there tends to be relocation of population within centres over the course of the summer because of the school holidays. We have found that we get the higher attendance of residents when we visit in spring and autumn so that is what we have been doing.

We have just competed our programme for this autumn. There is a small number of centres that we want to follow up on or have not yet reached but we have more or less finished. Once we become aware of where centres are, we can schedule a visit and generally, for logistical reasons, as I said earlier, as we try to maximise the number of centres we cover in one trip, we attend ones that are geographically close to each other.

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