Direct provision centres are necessary if we want to avoid having asylum seekers living in tents, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Direct provision centres are necessary if we want to avoid having asylum seekers living in tents, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. The Taoiseach said the Department of Justice is examining "all the time how we can make improvements" to direct provision. He said the same openness is needed in towns like Ballinamore where plans for direct provision housing have been paused. But the Taoiseach said there are 38 direct provision centres dotted around the country already.

Source: Irish Independent October 31, 2019 02:26 UTC