Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In Celbridge, in my constituency, the local hotel is where refugees have been located for the past number of years. There had never been an incident but unfortunately there was an incident last week, which was totally unrelated to anything happening at the location, and was obviously done deliberately to cause trouble. I have received quite a number of calls from local people who are concerned about the proposal whereby the people located there at the moment have been told that the contract is up, that they must move on, and that they will be replaced by homeless people from Dublin. Both are very pressing issues and equally in need of compassionate response. Would it be possible to postpone the relocation until such time as an alternative accommodation is sourced, so that nobody is displaced in a way that is inconsistent with their needs?

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