Government struggles to secure accommodation for asylum seekers

With the closure of the Citywest hub to asylum applicants, accommodation options are narrowing.
Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Asylum seekers will be forced to sleep on the streets as the Government struggles to get accommodation providers to take new arrivals from countries other than Ukraine.

Protests outside centres providing accommodation to non-Ukrainian arrivals have added to the difficulty in securing sufficient accommodation from private sector providers.