Coalition parties at loggerheads over ongoing refugee accommodation crisis

Coalition parties at loggerheads over ongoing refugee accommodation crisis

Gardaí with local residents as they blockade the asylum seeker accommodation at the Magowna House hotel in Inch, Co Clare. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The Coalition parties are at loggerheads over how to deal with the mounting crisis in providing refugee accommodation.

The Irish Examiner understands tensions came to a head at the Cabinet meeting when Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien “pushed back” on Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman. The tension comes as protestors in Clare prepare for a third day of barricading a hotel accommodating refugees.

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