Ms Sinéad Gibney:

Maybe somebody else could address the specifics of the question. We recently wrote to the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy McEntee, asking for reassurance and information on measures taken to allow people to self-isolate in direct provision. More generally, we inquired about the health and well-being of everybody in direct provision. As the Chairman has correctly pointed out, it is the State which has put people in circumstances where their health, well-being and ability to respond to this pandemic have been compromised. There is therefore an obligation on the State to ensure those compromises are fixed and these people can deal with the pandemic as well as the rest of the population can deal with it.