Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am having visions of when representatives of the new Department appear before the committee and say that in 2019, the matter was under the auspices of the Department of Justice and Equality. Can we ask for that figure to be provided? It was in the public domain but I cannot recall it at the moment. Assuming it is in the millions of euro, what exactly is the role of those companies? Do they identify accommodation and let the Department know, or does the Department say it needs X number of beds within a particular timeframe? What is the relationship and what are they paid for doing?