Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Migrant Crisis: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Michael Kirrane:

We are examining all accommodation options and it depends on the profile of the people coming. If they are families, we expect that the facilities will be appropriate for families while single people will be accommodated accordingly. We must bear in mind that it is an emergency situation and we are taking people from places where the facilities are extremely difficult. Senator Bacik referred to this earlier. Our job is to find the best facility we can within the timescale we have to do so.