. patflanagan1 column: 'How can we house 3,000 refugees when we've 10,500 homeless in Ireland?'
How is a country which has 10,514 people in emergency accommodation going to find homes for another 3,000 refugees?
Let’s face it, so many people are living as sub-citizens who are trapped in a form of social limbo. They cannot have a social life or even apply for jobs unless they want to give their address as a hotel room or a hub. Dr Mary Murphy of the school of social sciences in Maynooth University has rightly described them as “therapeutic incarceration” and run the risk of “recreating institutions like mother and baby homes”.
Asylum seekers are now competing with Irish families for space as since September 2018, they too have been placed in hotels and B&Bs due to pressure on the existing 40 Direct Provision centres.
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