The government has admitted that Ireland’s aim to resettle refugees under the Irish refugee protection regime could be jeopardized due to a lack of adequate accommodation.
270 program refugees, Syrians from Jordan, were due to travel this year but are not expected to arrive until the first six months of 2023.
The Ministry of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, which oversees the protection program for refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, said today today that the response to the Ukrainian crisis was a challenge and a “significant increase”. . number of applications for international protection causing impact on available accommodation options.
This follows a report by the Irish Refugee Council which said the arrival of more than 52,000 refugees from Ukraine and an increase in the number of people seeking international protection here meant the system was in crisis and the State was on the verge of exhaustion.
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