TD calls for random spot checks on Border as 160 people transferred from tents along Dublin’s Grand Canal in early morning operation
Taoiseach Simon Harris said the day of asylum seekers living in tents on the streets of Dublin for weeks or months had come to an end. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
A total of 30,027 people are being accommodated and a further 1,825 are awaiting an offer of State accommodation, according to the latest figures published on Thursday night by the Department of Integration. One of the options being explored by the Government is a reduction in the weekly allowance paid to asylum seekers not in direct provision, which currently stands at €113.80.
Mr Harris was speaking after an operation on Thursday morning to transfer 160 people from tents pitched beside the Grand Canal to other locations with food and sanitation facilities. Some 400 of the 610 people who applied last week were women and children and all were accommodated in International Protection Accommodation Services centres. However, almost 200 men were told there was no accommodation, bringing the total number of male asylum seekers with no designated accommodation to 1,800.
A new agency will have responsibility for supplying emergency accommodation in military-style 12-person tents on State-owned land, where people will have access to water, sanitation and electricity. The stalled “super prison” project at the Thornton Hall site in North Dublin has been identified as a possible location. The site had previously been assessed for suitability for Ukrainian refugees by the Department of Integration in March last year.
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