Post #9340

Just to pick up on something Claire Kirrane TD said in the above clip. She told the crowd that the development of the modular homes in Ballaghaderreen likely won't go ahead as Ireland is attracting fewer Ukrainians now that their social welfare entitlements have been cut, and that the government can't put international protection applicants in these homes as their planning permission exemption is only applicable if they're used to accommodate Ukrainians. But this can change at the stroke of a pen. On March 5th, the Examiner ran a story that the government was looking into expanding the planning permission exemption so that the beds no longer being used by Ukrainians in existing plantation centres can be given to international protection applicants instead. That will be the excuse they use but once they do that, all these new plantation sites we're seeing being developed (like the massive one in Naas) can be used to house non-Ukrainian asylum seekers. 🔗archive.is 👉🏻Join Late Stage Ireland