Peter Burke
Ceist:841. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of services at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33482/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 24 July 2018
Ceisteanna (841)
Freagraí scríofa
The Abbeyfield Hotel in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon is currently under contract as an Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre until 11 December 2019.
The Department of Justice and Equality, in conjunction with the Office of Government Procurement and assisted by the Chief State Solicitors Office, has recently concluded a public procurement process for Emergency Reception and Orientation Centres which has resulted in a framework being formed from which the Department can draw down as required. Four premises qualified and were placed on the framework. The Abbeyfield Hotel was not one of these four premises.
It is difficult at this stage to anticipate whether or not there might be a need for the Abbeyfield Hotel to continue as an Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre after the expiry of the current contract. That would necessitate a situation in which there was higher than anticipated demand for bedspaces under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme necessitating the procurement of additional centres to those which were successful in the current process. The Abbeyfield Hotel would then have to be successful at that public procurement competition.