The variety of homeless male asylum seekers has elevated by greater than 70 since Tuesday, to 1,399, in response to newest figures.
The info, from the Division of Youngsters revealed on Friday, compares with 1,323 male asylum seekers “awaiting provide of lodging” three days in the past when figures had been final up to date.
Since December 4th when the Worldwide Safety Lodging Service (IPAS) introduced it may now not provide lodging to male asylum seekers, 2,002 “eligible male” candidates have sought asylum.
On Tuesday the determine was 1,915, indicating 87 single males have utilized for asylum since. Simply three have been supplied lodging within the three intervening days.
Since December a complete of 213 have been accommodated following a “vulnerability triage” and 390 have been “subsequently supplied lodging” after being advised there was none.
Included within the knowledge for these awaiting lodging are the 130 males who final weekend had been bussed from a makeshift camp that had grown across the headquarters of the Worldwide Safety Workplace (IPO) in central Dublin.
The boys had been moved early on Saturday morning, following rising strain on the division amid outbreaks of scabies on the website the place as much as 200 males had been sleeping tough, to emergency shelter within the Dublin mountains. They had been supplied tents to pitch on the grounds of a disused nursing residence, owned by the Well being Service Government, in Crooksling, Saggart.
About 14 of the boys left the Crooksling website and returned to the IPO places of work on Mount Road Decrease, saying the Saggart website was very chilly and describing it as “depressing”.
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Regardless of issues the boys had been moved to “clear the world” of tents in advances of a global rugby sport in close by Lansdowne Highway on Saturday and the St Patrick’s Day occasions on Sunday the division insisted the steps had been taken because of issues concerning the males’s well being and welfare.
For the reason that weekend, as extra males apply for asylum, the variety of tents at Mount Road has continued to extend.
On Friday greater than 50 tents may very well be counted on the footpaths and lanes round Grattan Court docket and Grattan Road. This compares with as much as 35 final Sunday. Males there say there was a rise of threats and intimidation by passersby in latest days. Gardaí are current on an ongoing foundation.