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13/09/2012
Shatter Halts Closure Of Asylum Centre Until Review
The closure of Galway’s largest asylum-seeker accommodation centre has been deferred until Minister for Justice Alan Shatter reviews the reason for the decision to close.
None of the almost 270 asylum seekers and their families will be transferred before Mr Shatter’s review, his department told The Irish Times.
Last week the residents of the centre at Lisburn House, formerly the Ibis Hotel, were told of the closure after many of their children had already started a new school term.
Labour Galway West TD Derek Nolan appealed for Mr Shatter to intervene, describing the timing of the closure as a “terrible way to treat people”.
“That these children must now move to a location they do not know and at such a sensitive time for them, shows no regard for their welfare or education,” Mr Nolan said in a letter to the Minister.
Mr Shatter said he was “considering the background circumstances relating to the decision to close the Lisburn asylum-seeker accommodation centre in the light of representations received” by him.
He said he also had to bear in mind the need for the Reception and Integration Agency, which is responsible for asylum accommodation, to “manage its diminishing budget efficiently in the context of the current critical budgetary situation.”
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None of the almost 270 asylum seekers and their families will be transferred before Mr Shatter’s review, his department told The Irish Times.
Last week the residents of the centre at Lisburn House, formerly the Ibis Hotel, were told of the closure after many of their children had already started a new school term.
Labour Galway West TD Derek Nolan appealed for Mr Shatter to intervene, describing the timing of the closure as a “terrible way to treat people”.
“That these children must now move to a location they do not know and at such a sensitive time for them, shows no regard for their welfare or education,” Mr Nolan said in a letter to the Minister.
Mr Shatter said he was “considering the background circumstances relating to the decision to close the Lisburn asylum-seeker accommodation centre in the light of representations received” by him.
He said he also had to bear in mind the need for the Reception and Integration Agency, which is responsible for asylum accommodation, to “manage its diminishing budget efficiently in the context of the current critical budgetary situation.”
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