Mr. Paul Mallen:

We ask the management to notify the friends of the centre. We are not always aware of the groups in a particular centre. This has evolved. During the course of our visits, we have engaged with various NGOs that provide the service and we speak to them directly. They are the main national-based NGOs working in the immigrant area, such as the Irish Refugee Council, Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, MASI, and Spirasi. It includes any body that has input or involvement with the asylum community. We have ten or 12 on the list, which is growing as we engage. Recently, I was contacted by an advocacy service provided by an NGO to asylum seekers in the Dublin area and there will be further engagement with it. The list is growing. I send them a copy of the notification we send to the centre and I ask them to bring it to the attention of anybody they deal with in the particular area. This has been done for every centre we visit.