Tents housing asylum seekers near the Office of International Protection, Dublin, in April last year. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
The Government must end its “degrading” and “dangerous” practice of leaving newly arrived male asylum seekers to sleep rough until accommodation becomes available, Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has been told.
A letter sent to Mr O’Callaghan on Wednesday afternoon, signed by more than 100 civil society, cultural, religious and community groups from across the country, urged the Minister for Justice to end his department’s “harmful policy” of leaving
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