Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Henderson and Dr. Lannon for their opening statements. I wish to ask a few questions of both of them to start and then I will ask members to indicate or put up the hand signal and I will let them in.

I will start with Mr. Henderson of the Irish Refugee Council. I would like to speak for a moment about the council's report on implementing alternatives. We cannot allow ourselves to sit back and wait for that to start. Once a new model has been identified, as it has been in the White Paper, that transition process should begin immediately. In the council's report on implementing alternatives, it asks five critical questions. One related to timing and how we transition to these models. What has to occur for them to become live, and at what point do they start to deliver accommodation, in Mr. Henderson's view?