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More accommodation is expected to become available later this week to assist asylum seekers who currently do not have a place to stay.
Asylum seekers have pitched around 70 tents along the Grand Canal bank in Dublin, not far from the International Protection Office.
It comes just days after over 100 tents were moved from around the office on Mount Street.
An unprecedented number of asylum applicants have attended the International Protection Office over the past week seeking safe shelter.
On one day 200 people were expected to attend but 290 actually turned up.
It is understood that those who do not have accommodation are on a list, and fresh capacity is due to come on stream, in two traunches, this week.
It is hoped that this new accommodation will, at least for now, resolve the problem of asylum seekers pitching tents along the Grand Canal.
The issue is politically sensitive, given Taoiseach Simon Harris told the Dáil last week that what he called “makeshift shanty towns” would not be allowed develop again.
Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore said yesterday that the Government could not continue to allow almost 1,700 International Protection Applicants to be without State provided accommodation.
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