Ms Mary Hayes:

It is about objectivity. It must not be us assessing our own services but it must be someone with the qualifications and training to assess it. There are two layers to it. Dublin Fire Brigade does the fire inspections as well as the independent inspectorate so it has done about 38 services or maybe more at this stage, and then the independent inspectorate's reports have set criteria that they test an NGO the same as they test private emergency accommodation. A certain parity is brought to the standard of accommodation that is required in that way.