# direct-provision - Today’s News
There are currently over 1,500 asylum seekers living in Emergency Accommodation.
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# direct-provision - Yesterday’s News
Two online petitions supporting the teenagers have had over 5,000 signatures.
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# direct-provision - Friday 10 January, 2020
A migrant rights charity last month called for the centre to shut.
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# direct-provision - Monday 6 January, 2020
Video footage posted on Twitter appears to show ten beds in one hotel room in Portarlington.
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# direct-provision - Sunday 5 January, 2020
Mature student Lesley Mkoko says his bedroom in Waterford city is infested with bedbugs.
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Sylva Tukula was buried in May without ceremony or notice given to her friends.
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# direct-provision - Saturday 4 January, 2020
The Depart of Justice said this afternoon that no more than six people are in a room at the East End Hotel centre.
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The man appeared in court on 2 January and is due in court again next week.
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# direct-provision - Monday 30 December, 2019
The families have been resettled in Ireland under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme.
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# direct-provision - Saturday 28 December, 2019
Among the issues the group will examine is engaging with communities where Direct Provision centres are due to open.
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# direct-provision - Thursday 26 December, 2019
Plans for a Direct Provision centre were abandoned after weeks of protests by locals.
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# direct-provision - Monday 23 December, 2019
Mr Justice Max Barrett granted the permanent injunction today.
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# direct-provision - Thursday 12 December, 2019
The Justice Committee today launched its report into Direct Provision.
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The committee heard from stakeholders in relation to Direct Provision over the summer.
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# direct-provision - Wednesday 4 December, 2019
Plans for the centre were abandoned after weeks of protests by locals.
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# direct-provision - Thursday 28 November, 2019
Ballinamore Community Group had held protests over the plans in recent months.
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# direct-provision - Sunday 24 November, 2019
Some of the 16 Kurdish migrants found on a ferry in Rosslare on Thursday have reportedly left a reception centre.
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# direct-provision - Friday 22 November, 2019
He denied that vulnerable people in the centre were exploited for the sake of a political apology.
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50% more people have applied this year and many end up in emergency accommodation according to the Department of Justice.
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# direct-provision - Wednesday 20 November, 2019
Head of the UN Refugee Agency Enda O’Neill says a “road map” is needed to complete reform in Ireland’s asylum system.
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# direct-provision - Monday 18 November, 2019
Murphy is a candidate in the upcoming Wexford by-election.
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# direct-provision - Saturday 16 November, 2019
Ballinamore Community Group have agreed to stand down their demonstration in the town.
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# direct-provision - Thursday 7 November, 2019
Leo Varadkar says the rules were changed to allow asylum seekers to work, therefore they should be allowed to drive to that workplace.
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# direct-provision - Wednesday 6 November, 2019
Suaad Alshleh, a teenage refugee from Syria, was today awarded a bursary for medicine by Minister Joe McHugh.
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Defending Direct provision, he said it ‘is an imperfect system, but not an inhumane one’.
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# direct-provision - Tuesday 5 November, 2019
Plans to house over 100 asylum seekers in the town have been postponed amid protests.
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# direct-provision - Friday 1 November, 2019
Locals have argued that the Achill Head Hotel is not a suitable location for emergency accommodation.
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# direct-provision - Thursday 31 October, 2019
The Department of Justice said the women were only to be in Achill for 3 months.
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# direct-provision - Wednesday 30 October, 2019
The Co Monaghan town was the first to accommodate asylum seekers in emergency accommodation last year.
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# direct-provision - Wednesday 16 October, 2019
€18 million was spent on emergency accommodation for asylum seekers in the first nine months of 2019.
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# direct-provision - Sunday 13 October, 2019
Residents in Clondalkin Towers say they have been told that the works may not commence until next year.
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# direct-provision - Saturday 5 October, 2019
There are currently over 6,000 people living in Direct Provision.
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# direct-provision - Tuesday 1 October, 2019
The plan to accommodate asylum seekers at the former hotel sparked protests in recent weeks.
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# direct-provision - Monday 30 September, 2019
Michael D Higgins made the speech in New York.
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# direct-provision - Sunday 29 September, 2019
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan was speaking to RTÉ One’s The Week in Politics this afternoon.
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# direct-provision - Wednesday 25 September, 2019
Peter Tyndall called for more powers for the Ombudsman’s office.
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# direct-provision - Monday 23 September, 2019
The Justice Minister says over 1,300 asylum seekers are currently in emergency accommodation.
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# direct-provision - Wednesday 18 September, 2019
Seán Kyne TD added that the State has a duty to provide for asylum seekers.
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# direct-provision - Saturday 14 September, 2019
Hundreds of people took part in the protest in the Galway town.
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# direct-provision - Friday 13 September, 2019
Footage shared on social media shows Noel Grealish referencing “economic migrants” from Africa coming to “sponge off us”.
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