Mr. Peter Tyndall:

We meet the Department fairly regularly and the issues that arise during our visits are taken up with the Department. We monitor progress against those in subsequent meetings. The issues we raise with the Department are dealt with. The main issues on which the committee has been touching, about the length of time people stay in these centres and so on, does not often come up in those conversations. Those conversations are about practicalities, access to facilities and transport, movement between centres, access to medical cards and so on. Those are the kinds of issues we tend to be dealing with. Those issues are addressed by the Department. The issues around the length of stay and delay and so on are not part of that conversation.