Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion
9:00 am
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
To touch briefly on one of those points, the Irish Refugee Council raised previously the difficulty some asylum seekers have on readmission to direct provision centres. That would be related to the directive. They may be people who may have sought asylum without being in a direct provision centre or who are re-entering having lived somewhere else because they have no place else to go. As they do not have access to social housing, it would be difficult for them to access all the supports that local authorities and the homeless executive provide. Is that an issue the witnesses have identified and spoken about previously? Is that an issue in the context of the directive?
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