State to purchase turnkey properties to provide rapid-build homes for asylum seekers

Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman has warned Cabinet that there is an 'increasing likelihood' that families including women and children could find themselves without an offer of State accommodation in the coming weeks and or months. Picture: Damien Storan/PA

A revised plan to house asylum-seekers will see the State purchase turn-key properties, empty offices and deliver rapid-build homes in a bid to deliver 14,000 extra beds by 2028.

Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman also said the State needs 20 to 30 reception centres. A previous plan had said just six would be needed, but that was based on just 3,500 asylum seekers arriving. The reality now is between 13,000 and 16,000 people seeking international protection will arrive in Ireland every year.