Irish Refugee Council

Call made in joint statement by 30 civil organisations, including Irish Refugee Council and Focus Ireland

No qualifications needed for interpreters who help applicants with interviews of vital importance

Refugee support organisations question Government’s timing of announcement ahead of elections

More than 160 organisations across Europe, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, have raised concerns about pact’s contents

A number of homeless families presented at the office in Dublin on Friday after it had closed for the Easter weekend

After being provided with emergency beds, the men were sent back to their tents

Just three international protection applicants have been accommodated since last week

International Protection applicants are arriving to find themselves living on the street. But ‘at least there are no bullets’

Men have been sleeping outside the International Protection Office for up to two months

People should not be victimised for seeking asylum, Irish Refugee Council says

State has been unable to provide accommodation to single men since December 4th

Minister for Integration to put proposals to Cabinet committee for cutting welfare for future Ukrainian arrivals and providing accommodation for only 90 days

Firefighers wearing breathing equipment rescued a security guard from blaze in Finglas

Department considers amendment to protocol that puts refugees at risk of losing allocated beds

Taoiseach tells Dáil that State’s ability to accommodate and provide for refugees is ‘very much’ at its limit

Hotels and B&Bs are not suitable places for children to grow up, Ombudsman for Children says and calls for move away from emergency responses

Irish Refugee Council says it is unjust that the parents in direct provision do not receive something which is supposed to be a universal benefit

End Child Poverty Week seminar hears of difficulties in direct provision and generational poverty

Irish Refugee Council report says at one point there was a total of 593 people seeking protection who were homeless due to shortage of State accommodation

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hails ‘decisive step’, while Tánaiste Micheál Martin indicates support for focus on ‘burden sharing’