Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A 191% increase is a phenomenal increase and a huge burden. It is also a huge burden on the people themselves who are coming in, where they are being processed and almost pushed out to other centres of emergency accommodation throughout the country. We have seen situations where people are arriving to emergency accommodation with no blue card and no PPS number and, as a result, they would not have access to basic services such as medical services and a range of other services. One can well imagine that this is a very distressing situation, for example, for one pregnant lady who arrived in Cork, and to everybody else who is looking to avail of services. I am aware that, since then, PPS numbers have been issued to people. Is there a catch-up phase there? Are other people being sent out to emergency accommodation without the basic PPS numbers, blue cards and so on?

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