Taoiseach working on proposals to tackle migrant accommodation issues

The Taoiseach has said he is currently working on proposals with colleagues across the Government to tackle the migrant accommodation issue, and that encampments will not be allowed "to fester".

Simon Harris was speaking in Fermoy, Co Cork, after it emerged 30 new tents had been erected along Dublin's Grand Canal just hours after a multi-agency operation on Thursday to move 160 migrants from an encampment set up there in recent days.

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