Ministerial briefing papers outline that present model of accommodation provision is ‘unsustainable’
The need to prepare the delivery of health services for as many as 90,000 more refugees and asylum seekers in 2023 has been flagged with the new Minister of State for Public Health Hildegarde Naughton.
Liam O’Dwyer, an adviser to the Red Cross in Ireland, said sufficient numbers of vacant industrial and office complexes exist to immediately house IP applicants until more suitable space is found. He said that premises on the outskirts of cities, brought to their attention by commercial providers, could deliver a solution to the pending emergency.
“The Red Cross wouldn’t be promoting this type of accommodation at all, normally, but in this desperate situation the choice of putting people out in the cold is simply not acceptable. “They have said that they will do their very best to accommodate the most vulnerable people … [but] we are still worried that people will fall through the cracks,” said policy and advocacy officer Ciara Ross, of the pending Citywest closure.
“Three into two doesn’t go. They just don’t have the accommodation. I don’t see where they are going to get it from,” he said.
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