Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion
12:05 pm
Mr. Luke Bukha:
Regarding the question asked by Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, the RIA is responsible for most of the provision. It is a government body. The way the direct provision system is being run is more commercialised. The information we are looking for is on how the tenders to run a centre are carried out. We know that very few companies won the contracts. If we know that information, the names of the food suppliers and so forth, we will be able to trace the hygienic, health and other issues in that regard. It is to know how the RIA can assign companies or give contracts to companies to run direct provision centres.