Chinese dominate pay-for-residency scheme

Customers queue up in front of a store of Dior at the Sanya International Duty Free City in Sanya city in south China’s Hainan province. Some 1,613 applications have been accepted to date for the Immigrant Investor Programme — 1,511, or 94%, of those applications have been from Chinese nationals.

On Friday morning, Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman, the man with direct responsibility for Ireland’s asylum seeker programmes, said that he could not guarantee that incoming refugees would not have to sleep on the street after arriving in Ireland.

“What we are making clear is we’re not in a position to guarantee everyone an offer of accommodation,” he told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.