Spokeswoman for the Department of Integration says the site has still to be fully inspected, including assessing the level of availability or otherwise of services
Tánaiste Micheál Martin: he said it is expected people will be moved to the Thornton Hall site in four to six weeks. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
The former farm and farmhouse was purchased by the State in 2004 as part of a plan to build a new prison. However the project never went ahead and the site, in north Co Dublin, remains unused. Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland on Friday, Tánaiste Micheál Martin said it was expected people would be moved to the north Dublin location in four to six weeks.
The spokeswoman said that as soon as it was decided that the lands might be suitable for the provision of emergency accommodation local public representatives and local authority integration teams were informed as part of a “cascading” process of information distribution, with the intention that the local community would be informed in this way.
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