Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion

Dr. Ciara O'Connell:

In our recommendation, we referred to people committed during quarantine. Foreign nationals were committed for up to 14 days without any knowledge of where they were or why they were sitting there for 14 days. In response to our recommendation, they started to provide information on the committal process, the number of days, when one gets tested and those types of things. We have been engaging in a monitoring process on those recommendations. Shortly, members will start to see what the IPS has been doing and then we go back in and access its monitoring of the recommendations. There is movement but could be much more.

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