Sinn Féin calls for ‘audit’ of services before asylum seekers are moved into any area
Sinn Féin is pledging to establish a new immigration system that would require an audit of local services such as health, housing, transport and education to be completed before any accommodation centre for asylum seekers is located in a community.
The pledge is contained in a new international protection policy, to be unveiled by party leader Mary Lou McDonald on Tuesday as she seeks a reset on a politically difficult issue that has alienated the party from some of its traditional support base.
Sinn Féin will also recommend that a “two-tier system”, in which Ukrainians enjoy better conditions than asylum seekers from other countries, should end.
Ms McDonald will launch the new policy, entitled A Fair System that Works, promising that in government Sinn Féin would require an official audit of the existing capacity of local services before an accommodation centre for asylum seekers is opened.
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on social protection, said it…
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