Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Committee on Mental Health
Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion
Ms Sue Windle:
Regarding beneficiaries of temporary protection, BOTP, it is not regulated. There are 900 centres and none of the centre managers must have Children First and none are Garda vetted. Essentially, they are accommodating, housing and feeding very traumatised people, if that is a fair way to say it. It is ongoing trauma for Ukrainian people because the war has not finished. That comes with a myriad of issues. The people who are essentially supposed to be sheltering them-----
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