Between 20 and 30 homeless asylum seekers are sleeping rough nightly in sometimes freezing temperatures in Dublin city, volunteers say, as figures show almost 3,500 beds in refugee accommodation centres lie empty. These included 2,430 “mixed-accommodation beds”, 600 “single-male beds”, and 450 “family-only beds”. They show that on the night of October 24th Ipas centres had beds for 36,128 people while those accommodated numbered 32,648. “The current policy, which requires male IPAs [international protection applicants] to sleep rough to demonstrate need for accommodation, is more dangerous than ever. “Single male applicants for international protection have been particularly affected by shortages ...

Source: The Irish Times November 27, 2025 15:02 UTC