Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

First, Deputy Daly is quite right to say that the standards were published last August. They come into force on 1 January next year, as I said. They are standards that we will be working actively to go towards. It would be very much our preference that, instead of having one quarter of our residents in own-door accommodation, we would have 100% of our residents in own-door accommodation. We are quite a long way from that as of yet, and in those circumstances people have to share facilities. They have to share laundries and bathrooms in many cases. Many of our single residents have to share with strangers. That is the state of play and it was the state of play when we opened the Skellig Star Hotel. The same standards that would apply in many of our centres apply in the Skellig Star.

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