Immigration plan: Ireland needs to move beyond ‘emergency response’, Harris says as ‘community feels they’re not heard’

Fine Gael leader Simon Harris says the immigration plan being brought to Cabinet 'will see a less reliance on public-private partnerships'. Photograph: Grainne Ni Aodha/PA, which are understood to include an expanded programme of purchasing and construction of accommodation, are needed as “the community feels that they’re not being heard”.

The Coalition’s goal is to move away from a “total reliance” on private providers towards State-owned accommodation alongside commercial providers which will be held to higher standards.Long-awaited immigration plan will commit to avoiding use of ‘last hotel’ in a town for asylum seekersCore issues of referendums, housing and immigration to the fore among electorate

“And on the accommodation side similarly, we have to move from an emergency response, the community feels that they’re not being heard,” he said. Mr Harris said that when it comes to the issue of providing accommodation for asylum seekers we can be “extraordinarily proud as a country”.

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