International asylum seekers who have been accommodated at City West because of a cold weather initiative have been told they must move out this morning and they will end up sleeping rough, the CEO of the Irish Refugee Council has warned.
Nick Henderson told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that essentially the people will go back to the streets where they will have to sleep rough “to prove and demonstrate their need for accommodation.
“And then we hope that they would then be given accommodation once that’s done. But we’re extremely concerned both that people are going back out onto the streets, that they’re required to and to demonstrate their needs, putting themselves in a really vulnerable position. And then I suppose also just that the 3000 figure has passed and it’s one year since the no accommodation policy began.”
Mr Henderson said the Refugee Council understood that the Government’s position was that they needed the beds in City West for…
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