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

In terms of how intermediaries work, is it the case that the Department says it needs X number of people to be accommodated and asks the intermediaries to source accommodation or do the intermediaries approach the Department and tell it that they can accommodate a certain number of people? Alternatively, has the Department simply told the intermediaries to go for it, to get the Department everything they can and to then come back to it? Is the actual situation more akin to the third option?