Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I do not have a specific date but a matter of weeks is the timeframe which has been discussed with my officials. I very much hope that the transfer of function will have taken place by the end of this month. There is a need for a White Paper because it is an overarching issue and the solutions are across a wide range of issues. The programme for Government does not discuss the accommodation side of direct provision alone. It looks at the entire international protection process and how that might be speeded up, it looks at the conditions residents are living in, it looks at the provision of vulnerability assessments and it looks at the inspection, which is very relevant to the regulations on what direct provision accommodation should look like. It is an overarching element and all elements need to be looked at in the context of a new White Paper.

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