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

The Deputy speaks of a cooling-off period as if these are easy decisions that our Department is taking in a normal time. Again, we are responding to a humanitarian crisis and imminent homelessness. We have already seen that we are unable to provide accommodation for more than 1,000 male applicants as of today. We are close to being in that situation with families and female applicants as well.

I wish I was in the position where I had cooling-off periods in these situations, but I am not in that position, because I have a legal obligation to provide accommodation. I am failing in it and the Government is failing in it for 1,000 people right now. Deputy O’Dowd can shake his head about that, but that is the sad fact of it.

In the context of the D Hotel, evidence of compliance with fire certification was provided to my Department-----

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