Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres
Ms Oonagh Buckley:
That standard is what we currently measure against when properties are offered to us. The new standards, when they come into force next year, will be higher. In the meantime, we have taken the voluntary decision to reduce the number of people we have sharing any room, regardless of size, to a maximum of three. In fact, in many of our centres we now have a maximum of two strangers sharing a room. Obviously, family units continue to share.
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