Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

No one is evicted from international protection accommodation. I want to make that clear. In a situation where people have status, they are entitled to the full range of supports we spoke about earlier that people in the international protection application process are not entitled to. When people get their status, they are entitled to the same set of rights and supports as every Irish citizen. We have put in place significant resources to help those who have status to move on because it is not good for anyone that they continue to live in institutional direct provision settings. That is not what anyone wants. Let me be clear, however; no one is evicted from those premises, even if they have leave to remain.

We have transferred people across our network. We have to be able to do that as we are under a great deal of pressure to ensure that we can offer accommodation to newly arrived people. We have to make changes. Working with the Peter McVerry Trust and other housing NGOs, we have put in place a network of supports and more than 4,500 people have successfully moved out of international protection accommodation and into the community since 2022.

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