Changes will affect some 19,000 refugees in State-provided, full-board accommodation who fled to Ireland between 2022 and early 2024
Heather Humphreys and Roderic O’Gorman will bring plans to cut welfare allowances for Ukrainian refugees to Cabinet. Illustration: Paul Scottbetween 2022 and early 2024 are to have their welfare allowances cut from September under plans expected to be considered by Cabinet on Wednesday.
The measures are contained in a memo due to be brought to Cabinet by Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys and Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman.Sinn Féin’s immigration policy clears path for objecting to asylum centresand who are not working will get payments at the same level of allowances as those who have arrived since March this year.
“And our position is that reception centres should not be located in very, very deprived areas. We believe that is the wrong approach. If you look at what the Government has been doing, their approach has been arbitrary. It’s been very much ad hoc and driven by private provision,” she said. “What makes the issue of siting of international reception centres really, really, at odds is that that approach is not taken at all. And not alone that, as and when decisions arbitrarily are taken about the siting of centres, there isn’t then an audit even, a dialogue, a structured engagement or consultation with the community.
“At the heart of our approach, therefore, is community. It’s about living in the real world and recognising people’s lived realities. It’s about getting the system right in a way to protect our social cohesion and to have a system that enjoys public confidence.”
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