Asylum seekers will have access to “additional capacity” this week, according to Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman, reports RTE.
It occurs as more than a hundred tents are being set up on Dublin’s Grand Canal, extending from Baggot Street Bridge to Wilton Place on one bank of the waterway.
Minister O’Gorman told RTÉ News: “We will have additional capacity available across this week. And we will be working hard with other government agencies to ensure we can provide offers to those currently sleeping rough on the ground now that they’re here,” reports RTE.
The Grand Canal, he declared that he would be collaborating with organisations to guarantee lodging could be provided.
As stated by Minister of State Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, the government is trying to relocate applicants for international protection to “more sustainable, alternative accommodation”.
“The reality is we can’t allow tents build up where there are no sanitation facilities, where there are no good health facilities,” Ms Carroll MacNeill said, reports RTE.
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