Ms Oonagh Buckley:

The underlying purpose behind the Government’s White Paper on how we accommodate persons in the international protection system in the future is predicated on moving away from that model. We would argue that we tried to communicate and consult with people as best we could and even where there was controversy in places like Roscommon, as was mentioned, ultimately those centres opened. There are people in those centres and they are becoming part of the local communities. The advantage to doing that is that one has migrants living all over Ireland and one does not have them gathering in cities. I was about to mention ghettoes but I have been controversial enough in the last while so I do not want to go there.