Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres
Ms Oonagh Buckley:
Yes. We were lucky, in one respect, that the number of those aged over 65 years is low, somewhere short of 70. A further three dozen or so people with high health vulnerabilities were identified to us in recent weeks by the HSE. We have put solutions in place for all those people. In some cases, those solutions do not involve them having their own space. In at least one case, two ladies I am aware of asked to stay together because they are friends. Several members of our older population are also part of family groups, want to stay with their family network and are in a household in that way. Appropriate solutions, that the HSE is okay with, have been found for all that population, but it is, thankfully, quite small.
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