Ciara Phelan: Accommodation crisis plan lacks a sense of urgency and action

Roderic O’Gorman has drafted a plan with short-, medium-, and long-term measures to address the accommodation issue

Helen McEntee, the justice minister, Roderic O’Gorman, the integration minister, and Norma Foley, the education minister, announced a new Comprehensive Accommodation Strategy for International Protection applicants at Government Buildings on Wednesday. Picture: Maxwell’s

The day arrived that we had been waiting on for months. The  big plan to solve Ireland’s accommodation crisis for asylum seekers.

It was also the day that the Government, particularly Roderic O’Gorman, the integration minister, would have hoped the noise around how he is handling the immigration issue would quieten. Not with this plan.