International Protection
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-30
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Bríd Smith (PBP), Dublin South-Central

On 24 January of this year the Minister announced a new policy to leave some international protection refugees without accommodation. That, as could have been predicted, has resulted in hundreds of refugees living on the streets, making them, as was warned would happen, very vulnerable. As day follows night, they have faced absolutely unjustified racist attacks from racists and fascists. I want to know how many refugees have been left without accommodation since this policy was introduced in January and how many the Department is currently accommodating.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-30