Twelve months ago today, the good people of Dundrum - two of whom the Tánaiste met and I mentioned them to him before, Ms Nora O'Dwyer and Ms Andrea Crowe - started a peaceful, decent protest at the gates. I had a video sent to me half an hour ago of the bus leaving with the last of the Ukrainians. We do not know where they are going but they are being moved out to be replaced by international protection applicants. This is a shocking vista. It is a grave abuse of the community and people of Dundrum. The Ukrainians were working, integrated and being well looked after by the community. Now they have been loaded on a bus this morning. I do not know if even they know where they are going. The hotel is now an IPAS centre. The Tánaiste told me some months ago that he wanted a pause on hotels being taken over by IPAS centres, and here we are. He met Ms O'Dwyer and Ms Crowe but he never came back to them. There was no proper community engagement ever. It was token engagement. To put 277 IPAS people into a village of 220 people is criminal. It tears to shreds the Government's guidelines about not changing the demographics by 5%. What is the Government trying to do to the people of Dundrum and Tipperary? There will be apologies in this House in years to come about the way communities and good, honest people who want to make a living are being treated. They do not want to be at those gates 24-7. They have enough to do. There are there 12 months today and I am marking that this evening. It is a shameful situation.

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue with me again in the Dáil. As he rightly said, I met a number of local residents, including Ms O'Dwyer and Ms Crowe, and they were very decent people. It is not fair to say I did not come back to them. I listened to them, engaged with them and passed on their views to the relevant Ministers. The description of Ukrainian people being put on buses and not knowing where they are going is not my experience of how these issues are handled. We need to look at the number of Ukrainians in Ireland, State contracts, value for money and the fact people have been here quite a while. People want to get on with their lives and a lot of work is done to try to do that correctly.

On the decisions the Department of Justice and Government take around the location of IPAS centres, it is well known it is Government policy to get to a number of State-led, State-owned facilities, including the one in Citywest that we have, and to move away over time from having to use smaller facilities in communities, particularly ones that were used for the likes of hotels in the past. I will ask the Minister, Deputy O'Callaghan, and-or the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, to come back to the Deputy directly with an update on Dundrum, conscious of what the Deputy is saying is happening in the community tonight.