Asylum seekers call for eight reforms of ‘unfair’ system

A COMMITTEE of asylum seekers resident in a state-funded direct provision centre have called for the Dáil to consider eight reforms – including the abolition of the direct provision system – to an asylum system deemed unfair and not cost-effective.

The St Patrick’s Residents Committee delegation, a group elected by asylum-seekers housed in a Monaghan state-funded centre, met with members of a Oireachtas Health and Children Committee who visited their facility on Thursday.

At that meeting, the committee chairperson presented the politicians with two letters.