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

I am stating that the policy was targeted at international protection refugees, who are in the main black and brown men. It has left them very vulnerable on the streets, and we all know the story of the consequences of that.
My question to the Minister is how much more the Department can do. Nobody in this House has ever answered the following questions. What about Baggot Street hospital? What about the big empty Jurys Hotel in Ballsbridge? Those questions have never been answered, yet we have heard people such as Mel Reynolds, the renowned architect, give clear detail as to how those buildings could be used to house hundreds of people a stone's throw away from the offices of the IPAS.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-30