A new ‘tent city’ of asylum seekers is expected to grow amid an “extremely serious” shortage of accommodation.
The State is currently housing just under 84,000 refugees and international protection applicants – the bulk of whom are from Ukraine.
With such high demand for accommodation, officials have been unable to source it for 582 people and many have set up camp in tents outside the International Protection Office in Dublin.
One resident of ‘tent city’, as it has become called, is originally from Zimbabwe and fled to Ireland after he was beaten up for his sexuality.
Being gay is a crime in Zimbabwe and LGBT people are at huge risk of violence if their sexuality becomes public knowledge.