Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres
Ms Oonagh Buckley:
There is no practice of specifically testing asylum seekers unless it is required based on health reasons. As I said earlier, the Department of Justice and Equality would object most strongly to any suggestion that there should be a practice of randomly testing asylum seekers as a unique group compared with the rest of the population.
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