‘Proper accommodation alternatives’ urged for those sleeping in tents such as the men recently moved from city centre to Crooksling
Protesters outside the International Protection Office on Mount Street, Dublin, calling on the Government to do more to support homeless asylum seekers. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Dee Roche, who volunteers with Social Rights Ireland, said the groups were “here to get answers as to what the policy plan is going forward about how asylum seekers will be treated”.Liam Cunningham: ‘I tell people I’m a migrant. It messes with them. You can see them getting a twitch’Paschal Donohoe on In the Long Run: Wise and beautiful work of political scholarship
“As volunteers, we’ve been trying to help the men who’ve been at the IPO for the last few weeks. It’s been getting steadily worse and last weekend it came to a head,” Roche said, referring to asylum seekers who were sleeping in tents being moved out of the city centre ahead of St Patrick’s Day festivities to a tented emergency shelter at the site of a former Health Service Executive nursing home in Crooksling in southwest Dublin.
Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman said: “I recognise the site in Crooksling is basic but it is significantly better than the absolute lack of basic facilities that existed at Mount Street.”
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