Almost 800 granted leave to remain are still in Direct Provision centres

Two of the resident from the Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre in Cahersiveen. Picture: Alan Landers.

Nearly 800 people who have been granted leave to stay in Ireland are still in Direct Provision centres, a situation which is "effectively making them homeless".

Sinn Féin TD Eoin O Broin had asked Justice Minister Helen McEntee for the latest figures of people who had been granted leave to remain but had not yet left.