Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach said the hotel recently advised the Department but that the Department met it only yesterday. In the meantime the residents and their families are in limbo regarding their future in two months' time, 3 December. They need certainty. They have already made a difficult journey on a difficult path and now find their future here is in somebody else's hands and they have no information.

I accept the Taoiseach's commitment that the Department and the RIA will interact with the residents this week but given that this is the third centre to close in Dublin this year, is the Department aware of any further centres that will close over the coming months? What lessons were learnt from the previous two that obviously have not been put into action here, given that these families and their children are being left in abeyance without any idea of where they will be living when Christmas comes?

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