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Payments to international protection applicants to be means tested

Payments to international protection applicants will be means tested from next month under revised Government guidance. Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has confirmed that international protection applicants will have their payments ...

23 May 2024 at 16:40

National News

Lease withdrawn for Mayo hotel proposed to accommodate international protection applicants

A proposal to accommodate 50 male international protection applicants in a hotel in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo has been scrapped. Local county councillors Damien Ryan and Michael Burke have stated that a lease between the Department of Children, ...

06 Jan 2024 at 15:48

National News

Major operation to clear tents from Grand Canal now underway

A major operation to clear tents from the Grand Canal in Dublin is now underway. A government statement confirmed the joint operation taking place this morning (Thursday May 9), the purpose of which is "to ensure the safe movement of ...

09 May 2024 at 08:59

National News

Means-testing asylum seekers aims to ensure system is fair, says McEntee

Government plans to means-test asylum seekers is about ensuring there is a fair system in place, Justice Minister Helen McEntee has said. Ms McEntee said Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys is currently looking at ...

24 May 2024 at 14:17

National News

Protesters block Clare hotel being used for asylum seekers

Protestors have blocked the site of a former hotel in County Clare which was due to house 34 asylum seekers. This Monday, the international protection applicants arrived by bus at Magowna House in Inch, just west of Ennis....

16 May 2023 at 10:55

National News

Irish NGOs supporting integration of asylum seekers to get €2.5m in govt funding

Over 50 not-for-profit organisations are set to receive €2.5 million for projects supporting International Protection applicants. The Minister of State for Community Development, Integration and Charities, Joe O’Brien, ...

29 May 2024 at 16:08

National News

Asylum seekers with jobs should pay towards accommodation, Harris says

Asylum seekers who have incomes should be asked to financially contribute towards State accommodation and services provided to them, the Taoiseach has said. International protection applicants can seek permission to ...

12 Sept 2024 at 11:34

National News

'Hold on a minute,' Carlow TD avoids asylum seeker protest questions in car crash RTÉ interview

Carlow/Kilkenny Fianna Fáil TD, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, refused to answer 'straightforward' questions in an RTÉ radio interview on Thursday morning over plans to house male international protection applicants in ...

11 Jan 2024 at 14:15

National News

'Put the Irish people first' - Hundreds attend anti-asylum seeker protest in Mayo

A member of a group protesting against asylum seekers being placed in a local hotel in Ballina has said they are willing to bring their protest to Dublin. Hundreds of people gathered at the Twin Trees Hotel in ...

23 Apr 2024 at 12:45

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