Irish Examiner View: Direct provision system - Inspections suspended

Residents of the Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre in Cahersiveen called for the centre to be closed and for the residents to be moved to more suitable accommodation in July. Picture: Alan Landers.

The Department of Justice has for too long poorly administered the direct-provision system.

There have been far too many unhappy incidents, far too many failures that do not reflect the compassion that most of this country’s population would like to extend to vulnerable people.