Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres
Mr. Mark Wilson:
The environment has been evolving over the past two months. What would happen with that matter now is that the public health section would make contact with the Department of Justice and Equality and convene an outbreak control team meeting. That public health-led process would ensure proper communication is maintained throughout the outbreak. In respect of movements in the second week of March, the environment was very different. We were responding very quickly. That was within the second week of activity ratcheting up in terms of concerns. If the Deputy recalls, there was the potential for a wave of 25,000 cases by the end of that month. Decisions had to be made. IPAS and I liaised with the national social inclusion office. We considered the issues attached to whether to make a decision to move-----
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