Letter to the Editor: 'Ending direct provision is possible, given political will'
A few words in response to comments made by Minister Simon Coveney in your article, ‘Critics of direct provision ‘not living in real world’ — Coveney’, October 3, 2019, in which the minister stated: “People calling for an end to direct provision as if somehow we can magic over 7,000 people out of direct provision and into their own homes overnight; that is just not living in the real world.”
Firstly, this crisis did not magic out of the blue. It is a result of a steady, predictable decline in capacity in direct provision since 2017.
