What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a meeting of their Central Area Committee on Tuesday.
“I consider this place home,” says Abdul Rahman Ali, who signed a lease for an apartment in the complex in 2010. “I’ve been here for 14 years.”
These were among the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their November monthly meeting on Monday.
But mothers Danielle Barlow and Denise Carr say their applications to the council for “medical priority” to get into social housing faster, were refused.
An inter-departmental group is going to have a think about it, and make recommendations in the first half of 2025, a Department of Housing spokesperson said.
The council should provide stables for horses and fix up the house, says People Before Profit Councillor Hazel de Nortúin.
Respondents mostly felt that the partnership provided a forum for inter-agency collaboration but that it needed more resources and better staffing to work.
“Chances are, in Dublin, if it has buddleia growing on it, it’s owned by the local authority,” says Ciarán Cuffe, the Green Party former MEP. “And that is not the way it should be.”
Social Democrats Councillor Daniel Ennis criticised independent Councillor Malachy Steenson.
“No, no, no involvement whatsoever, which is a bit bizarre,” said Eddie Mullins, chair of the North Inner City Local Community Safety Partnership.
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their October monthly meeting.
It’s time to shift strategies, some say, and ramp up lower-density affordable-purchase housing there instead.
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