Does the Government really have the will to erase the stain of direct provision?  

Without drastic improvement from the Department of Housing, the new own-door 'temporary' accommodation planned for asylum seekers could very well end up as Direct Provision Vol 2, featuring the added bonus of your own front door. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Compared to other institutions in Ireland, cynics could say we're lucky direct provision only got a run of two decades.

The age-old Irish problem of putting that which makes us uncomfortable out of sight and far from mind has given us exactly the same result as it did when we locked away the women and children we considered "other" before.