46 Proinsias De Rossa asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recent report, Beyond the Pale: Asylum Seeking Children and Social Exclusion in Ireland, commissioned by the Irish Refugee Council and funded by the Combat Poverty Agency; his plans to review the arrangements for direct provision for asylum seekers having regard to the findings of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32078/01]

The stated aim of the report was to compare the experiences of children in direct provision with asylum seeker households living in the private rented sector and in receipt of the full rate of supplementary welfare allowance, SWA. I consider this report to be seriously deficient in a number of key respects and I will let the facts speak for themselves.