Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

I will come in on that. In general, the transfers taking place at the moment involve individuals who have tested positive. They have been moved to an isolation facility and have completed their period of isolation. Either they need to be transferred back to where they came from or transferred on to another centre. The other group of people who are moving into our system are the people who are still arriving and applying for international protection on a daily basis. We are working with our colleagues in the HSE to try to introduce an effective quarantine system for them for a couple of weeks. Then we need to move them on to other centres. The system is a live system. There are constantly people flowing into it and fewer people flowing out of it. We have to keep the system moving. We are in constant engagement with our colleagues, especially in the national social inclusion office, as to how we can continue to maintain the system safely.

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