UN tells Government to improve conditions for incoming refugees

Bedding at the Gormanstown army camp in Co Meath. Picture: Government Information Services 

The Government has been told by the United Nations Refugee Agency that it must take swift action to ensure refugees have accommodation that offers basic levels of safety and dignity. 

Agencies working with refugees from Ukraine, Afghanistan, and other areas of conflict have also raised concern that thousands of rooms, currently occupied by refugees in student accommodation buildings, will be lost again from next month when third-level colleges begin to reopen.