Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will arrange accommodation transfer to Mosney Accommodation Centre, Julianstown, County Meath, in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [26144/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) of my Department is responsible for the provision of accommodation to asylum seekers.

The Agency does not, and indeed could not, implement the Government decision to disperse asylum seekers as evenly as possible throughout the country by offering asylum seekers their choice of location as to where they are be accommodated pending consideration of their application.

Nonetheless, I understand that the Agency does attempt to accommodate particular asylum seekers in particular locations where their normal day-to-day requirements can be met to the greatest possible extent.

I am also informed that a transfer to the locations mentioned in the Question is not possible in this particular case.