Sewage problems among issues at Dublin site earmarked for international protection applicants

It is understood the site will eventually be used to accommodate a maximum of 1,000 asylum seekers in tented accommodation. File picture.

The Government’s plan to house international protection applicants on the Thornton Hall site in Dublin has hit a series of snags, including the fact there is no sewage connection on the site.

It emerged in recent weeks that the Department of Integration, under pressure to source alternative accommodation for asylum seekers after months of tented encampments springing up in Dublin city centre, had decided to make use of the vacant farm site.