Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres
Dr. Kevin Kelleher:
To my knowledge, there was no such strategy. The moves were arranged by the Department of Justice and Equality. However, if we understood there to be an issue in a centre, the testing would then be developed as a consequence of what we knew about what was happening in the centre. As the committee heard, if a case or contacts were identified, they would be moved out of those centres as quickly as possible to separate isolation facilities. The testing depends on the circumstances, the conditions, the numbers, etc., in those centres.
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