Written answers

Thursday, 3 December 2020

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Direct Provision System

Photo of Pa DalyPa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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107. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the use of approved housing bodies to deliver housing for international protection applicants. [40187/20]

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Programme for Government contains a commitment to ending the Direct Provision system and replacing it with a new International Protection accommodation policy, centred on a not-for-profit approach. The Government has also committed to the development of a White Paper which will set out how this new system will be structured and the steps to achieving it.

My Department is currently developing the White Paper which will set out options, together with the recommended direction, for the new model of accommodation and services for International Protection applicants and the transitional processes needed to implement the model. Options for developing a not-for-profit approach are currently being examined in this regard.

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