Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Ms Tracy Dube is a Zimbabwean international living in the Clondalkin Towers direct provision centre. She works as a part-time healthcare assistant in a nursing home and is studying social care full-time in Technological University Dublin, TUD. She received her leave to remain in October 2021 and was approved for homeless housing assistance payment, HAP, in October of last year. Since then, she has been desperately trying to find private rental accommodation and is actively using the place finder service. In March, she received a letter from the international protection accommodation services, IPAS, saying that if she had not moved out by June, she would be moved to County Clare. On Friday, a taxi arrived by IPAS to move her against her will from Dublin to County Clare, which would have had an enormous impact, resulting in her losing her job and her place in college. There is no merit to this policy. IPAS gains nothing from it. The big losers will be working people like Tracy. I urge the Taoiseach to explore and give a commitment to end this practice and withdraw the threat to displace this woman from her home, work and college in Dublin to a place she knows nothing about.

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