Asylum seekers should be allowed to work if they have spent more than nine months in direct provision.
That's one of the recommendations from a damning new report into the system for refugees, which has been branded "not fit for purpose."
The report also suggests that asylum seekers should be able to complain to the Ombudsman about the standard of care at facilities like Mosney and Clondalkin Towers.
These residential institutions are among those established in 2000 by the then Fianna Fáil - Progressive Democrats government.
The centres were only meant to accommodate refugees for a short time while their asylum applications were being processed.
However most migrants spend three years or more there, with the longest stay being eleven years.
Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight, Padraig Mac Lochlainn, says the system is failing its users:
