Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has sought a report on accommodation conditions
hotel are being housed in a room with ten beds and no windows, according to footage taken from inside the accommodation.
The former East End Hotel in Portarlington, Co Laois has accommodated asylum seekers for several months. On Friday, around 19 asylum seekers were transferred to the former hotel and the group were split between two rooms. The room did not appear to have previously been a bedroom and had been “modified” to accommodate the asylum seekers, he said.The glass of a fire alarm on the wall of the room had been broken but had not been replaced, according to photographs seen by The Irish Times.‘Don’t say anything’
“Today [the staff] came in and they told us if you want you can have different rooms, they told us don’t say anything to anyone,” he said.
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