CAMP DOWN
Tent city torn down for third time this month along Grand Canal and barricades erected as 100 asylum seekers moved
Six sites across the country have been earmarked for international protection applicants
AROUND 100 tents being used by asylum seekers are being cleared from the Grand Canal in Dublin city.
The operation, which is the third to take place at the canal this month, began shortly before 7am this morning.
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More barriers around the site near Baggot St were erected by contractors from 5am before tents were sprayed with numbers.
When the multi-agency operation commenced, international protection applicants were informed by volunteers that they were being asked to move.
Volunteers sifted through peoples belongings and assisted with taking away the tarpaulins covering the tents in the encampment.
The asylum seekers were given a letter informing them that they would be committing an offence if they continued to stay at the site.
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The tents were loaded onto a lorry and taken away.
Gardai arrived at the scene and the men started boarding multiple coaches to be transferred to other sites at 7am.
It is understood that the men will be housed in tents at alternative accommodation in Dublin.
The state-provided site has food, access to charge phones, security, transport to and from Dublin city centre and access to sanitary facilities.
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A Government statement this morning said that a number of beds became available in Citywest in recent days.
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Asylum seekers were given offers of accommodation as a result.
According to The Irish Times, some 500 men have been transferred from the Grand Canal area to other accommodation over the past few weeks.
Six sites across the country have been earmarked for international protection applicants arrived in Ireland in a bid to take pressure off Dublin.
Plans are also underway for the Government to open a new asylum-processing centre outside the capital.
It comes as six sites across the country have been earmarked for migrants arriving here in a bid to take pressure off Dublin.
The Government also plans to open a new asylum-processing centre outside the capital.
An old prison site has also been earmarked as a location for tented accommodation camp for asylum seekers in response to demand.
The Thornton Hall site was purchased by the State in 2004 with a “super prison” due to be built on the land.
It is now suspected that an accommodation camp for asylum seekers could be up and running on the land in weeks.
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