The government are using taxpayer money to house 1,478 asylum seekers in hotels across the country as Ireland’s Direct Provision system has reached maximum capacity, the Sun reports.
These revelations come as more than 10,000 Irish citizens continue to languish in homelessness this winter.
In response to the continued establishment of migrant plantations communities across Ireland have rallied to halt the opening of Direct Provision centres in their towns and villages.
Towns such as Rooskey, Oughterard and Ballinamore have mounted successful challenges planned DP Centre’s and in response the government have moved to make the locations of new migrant plantations secret.
According to the Sun, in a statement on the issue, the Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan said the government “does not disclose the location of emergency accommodation centres in order to protect the identity of international protection applicants”.
The government has also renewed its push for legislation to control speech in order to stifle voices speaking out about the EU mandated migrant plantations. During Dáil discussions opposition to mass migration and the current asylum seeker policies of the government were sighted as cause for “hate speech” legislation.
In a speech in the Dáil Sinn Fein TD Martin Kenny referred to “hate speech and fascist talk” in reference to the growing opposition to the migrant plantations being established around rural Ireland.
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