After several destitute migrants set up tents in a private park in south Dublin, the Taoiseach has defended the government’s handling of providing housing for asylum seekers, reports Breaking News.
On Thursday evening, some twelve asylum seekers showed up in Ballsbridge’s St. Mary’s Church Park.
The International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) had informed the men that lodging was no longer an option.
At around nine in the morning on Friday, the males departed the Ballsbridge neighbourhood. The park is near Mount Street, where hundreds of tents were set up until a multi-agency operation dismantled the temporary campground on Wednesday morning, reports Breaking News.
The growing number of asylum seekers entering the State has presented challenges for the government to handle.
On Thursday, though, some men who requested lodging were informed that none was available.
According to Simon Harris, setting up “makeshift encampments” on pavements and public highways is forbidden and “never the solution.”
Speaking in Belfast, Mr Harris said: “It’s also not in the interest of the people who are sleeping in those tents, people who don’t have access to proper sanitation. We did provide 290 people from Mount Street and those who appeared in Mount Street that day with accommodation, with shelter, with access to sanitation, with food, with a much better scenario than had been allowed to develop on Mount Street,” reports Breaking News.
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