Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is fair to say, given the speed with which we have had to deal with huge numbers, that the people in the Department dealing with this have worked very hard at it. If someone had said to us a year and a half ago that we were going to have to deal with this situation and that we would have been able to accommodate this number of people, we would have said there would not have been a hope of doing so. I take on board what the Deputy said regarding some of the accommodation being below a certain standard.