Asylum seekers pitch more than 40 tents along Dublin’s Grand Canal after Mount Street site cleared away | 901UT3W | 2024-05-10 00:08:01
Asylum seekers pitch more than 40 tents along Dublin's Grand Canal after Mount Street site cleared away | 901UT3W | 2024-05-10 00:08:01
ASYLUM seekers pitched more than 40 tents along Dublin's Grand Canal days after a nearby camp was cleared away and barriers erected.
The latest encampment is less than 400 metres from the previous site by the International Protection Office on Mount Street.
On Wednesday tents were moved from around the IPO but migrants were last night camped out between Mount Street bridge and Huband Bridge.
And on Thursday night, some 17 tents were set up in a church park in Ballsbridge.
Figures this week reveal there are 1,676 male asylum seekers without State accommodation.
Yesterday, Taoiseach Simon Harris said there was a "need for a sense of calm" following a diplomatic row with the UK over immigration.
Tensions between London and Dublin have increased in recent days after Ireland's justice minister claimed there had been an upsurge in asylum seekers crossing the border following the passing of the UK's Safety of Rwanda Act.
Speaking in Belfast, Harris said: "After the week that has been there is a need for a sense of calm here, there is need for a bit of a deep breath.
"We have a common travel area between the two islands, that is a common travel area that is in place for a very long time when both countries were in the European Union and it is still in place now when one country is within the European Union and one isn't.
"I am determined to work as Taoiseach constructively to make sure that the common travel area is protected, the common travel area is never abused.
"There is a range of measures we need to take on an Irish level in terms of improving our migration systems."
Harris said people in Ireland wanted to know that there a "fair and firm" system was in place to manage immigration.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> He said: "Migration and immigration is a good thing.
"I think it is really important that we say that and that we don't cede that ground or create a vacuum for others to exploit.
"Having said that people in Ireland, and I would imagine people in most countries want to know that there are rules in place, want to know that the rules are enforced.
"They want to know the system is fair, it is firm, that it helps those who are entitled to help and that if somebody comes to our country, goes through a processing system and isn't entitled to be there, that that person is asked to leave at the first instance and made to leave if they don't."
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