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

I will make clear what information the committee needs to get on intermediaries. We need to know the number of intermediaries and who they are; the amount they have been paid; the proportion of that they received as opposed to the accommodation provider; the number of properties in each case; and the number of individuals accommodated via each of them. We need to get a handle on this because these are the types of issues that can get out of hand.

If somebody seeking international protection is in a property sourced via an intermediary and makes a complaint about the conditions to the Department, what happens?