International protection applications from Nigeria to be subjected to accelerated process from Tuesday
Leo Varadkar did not put enough pressure on Government departments to find beds for homeless asylum seekers while he was taoiseach, Green Party TD Joe Brien has said. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Imagesdid not put enough pressure on Government departments to find beds for asylum seekers sleeping rough, a Green Party minister has said.
Mr O’Brien also raised concerns over perceptions of how the gardaí were policing anti-immigration protests, including at Mr O’Gorman’s home last week. He said the Gardaí have taken “a good approach in a lot of these situations”, but that there was a problem because it looked like they were “standing back in some situations”. He said while videos had to be taken with a “pinch of salt”, the “problem is there is a perception there”.
He also complained that a communications plan promised by the Government on migration had not yet been developed. “It’s been floating around the ether for 12 months that there’s going to be a communications plan on immigration from the Department of the Taoiseach. It hasn’t been moving and no one has got a good explanation as to why.” He said he had raised it several times and senior Ministers had done similarly at a Cabinet subcommittee meeting.
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