Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Yes. We all get these documents, and the Chair will recognise that. We get documents before people are going to be accommodated. The Department tells us the number of people involved and so forth. Our understanding was that there were to be somewhere in the region of 90 people accommodated in this facility between the outbuildings and the house itself. There was an amount of money, in the order of €250,000 per month, for that. When there were fire drills, however, the house was evacuated of fewer than 50 people on two occasions. It is not at all clear how many people are in the house.

This is also drawing attention to some awful stuff about the monotony of the food. People have been complaining about it, saying they have been treated more like children or prisoners. There ware several damning things in this report. It states that complaints were received from residents in respect of alleged racism from the centre manager. Other residents stated that he is not appropriate and makes them feel as if they are children or prisoners. One particular resident stated that the manager became annoyed when the resident raised an issue in respect of the cleanliness of the communal toilet. Some residents stated they were sometimes not afforded privacy in their own rooms.