John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Communication is key and I welcome the belated moves of the Minister and the Department to try to address some of those issues by taking on additional staff and so on.

On site selection, is the decision to use particular premises based solely on availability? What work is done to identify particular challenges in an area, including a lack of school places or challenges around access to GPs? What engagement takes place? Emergency accommodation was opened in my constituency of Wicklow. The local authority had no knowledge. There were no communications to the education and training board, ETB. This happened a couple of years ago and perhaps things have changed. What engagement with all of those service providers takes place now?