Ms Oonagh Buckley:

What I can say now is that all staff have now completed the Tusla course and all staff have now been Garda vetted. I want to come back to the question of the timeframe for that.

The Deputy asked about the opening sessions. There was some change in the management. I believe one person resigned in the first week or so. The centre manager in place now is a very experienced centre manager who ran a direct provision centre for many years. Considerable experience has been put into the direct provision at this point.

Now I will come back to the Garda vetting. It was brought to our attention on Wednesday last that there may have been staff on site who had not been Garda vetted. We immediately reached out to the Garda vetting unit. The unit indicated to us that there were concerns about the way in which the Garda vetting had been done and the fact that there were some staff on site who had not been Garda vetted. This is a very serious thing. It is obviously the employer's obligation to ensure Garda vetting is done. It is also part of our governance structures and we have to ensure that it is done. I can now say that, with the co-operation of the Garda vetting unit, all staff who need to be Garda vetted have been Garda vetted as of Monday. However, it was an unacceptable thing that happened and it was something that-----