Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

Yes. Those efforts have continued throughout the pandemic and even during the lockdown. Eighty people moved out of our centres as part of that assisted process during the month of April, which was great. We need to do more of that and we are working strongly with two NGOs that helped that process. We have a co-located official from the local authority services and the Dublin Region Homeless Executive who helps us with housing assistance payment, HAP, applications and so on, and we are very keen for as many of those households as possible to move out of our centres as quickly as possible because that relieves a huge amount of pressure on us elsewhere.

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