Asylum seekers abused in food row
Residents at a Dublin accommodation centre for asylum seekers claimed staff threatened to beat them for requesting clean bed clothes and extra food.
Gardai have been called to the centre a number of times to deal with complaints ranging from insufficient food for babies to arbitrating dining times. There have been complaints about a lot of centres according to the Irish Refugee Council.
Allegations that staff are abusive in some of the centres, while standards of accommodation and food in some direct provision centres have been 'significantly inferior' to the contract between the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) and the centre's owners.
Complaints include a 'severely traumatised' man living in the Kinsale Road accommodation centre in Cork on medical advice. He claimed he was moved to anothe room without his doctor's consent, and that his personal belongings were placed in a plastic bag in the office.
He was later information by the RIA that because he had not been signing in and out, he was presumed to have abandoned his accommodation. He did not know he was obliged to sign in and had not left the hostel because of his medical condition.
A family in a small accommodation centre in the west of Ireland had a sizeable section of their room's ceiling cave in close to their baby's cot, despite having reported leakages in the ceiling on a number of occasions.
In a Dublin centre, there have been repeated instances in the past two years of security and front desk staff threatening to hit of beat residents for requesting bedclothes and food.
Staff in one centre are reported to have deliberately not respected Halal eating requirements by purposely using the same utensils to serve pork and other products.
Some people have been living in 'Direct Provision' for up to six years and that children had grown up not knowing what it was like to have lived in a normal home.
Over half of all asylum seekers were under 35 and up to 1,000 people have been living in 'Direct Provision' for over two years.
"There are children growing up in an environment where the child has never seen the parent cook a meal or go to work" said Michelle Moor legal officer at the IRC.
"Management in some centres seem to be threatening residents by saying that they'll report them to Justice. Where people have lost atonomy, the psychological effects and being treated this way can be very difficult.
(source- Paul Melia- Irish Independent)
Gardai have been called to the centre a number of times to deal with complaints ranging from insufficient food for babies to arbitrating dining times. There have been complaints about a lot of centres according to the Irish Refugee Council.
Allegations that staff are abusive in some of the centres, while standards of accommodation and food in some direct provision centres have been 'significantly inferior' to the contract between the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) and the centre's owners.
Complaints include a 'severely traumatised' man living in the Kinsale Road accommodation centre in Cork on medical advice. He claimed he was moved to anothe room without his doctor's consent, and that his personal belongings were placed in a plastic bag in the office.
He was later information by the RIA that because he had not been signing in and out, he was presumed to have abandoned his accommodation. He did not know he was obliged to sign in and had not left the hostel because of his medical condition.
A family in a small accommodation centre in the west of Ireland had a sizeable section of their room's ceiling cave in close to their baby's cot, despite having reported leakages in the ceiling on a number of occasions.
In a Dublin centre, there have been repeated instances in the past two years of security and front desk staff threatening to hit of beat residents for requesting bedclothes and food.
Staff in one centre are reported to have deliberately not respected Halal eating requirements by purposely using the same utensils to serve pork and other products.
Some people have been living in 'Direct Provision' for up to six years and that children had grown up not knowing what it was like to have lived in a normal home.
Over half of all asylum seekers were under 35 and up to 1,000 people have been living in 'Direct Provision' for over two years.
"There are children growing up in an environment where the child has never seen the parent cook a meal or go to work" said Michelle Moor legal officer at the IRC.
"Management in some centres seem to be threatening residents by saying that they'll report them to Justice. Where people have lost atonomy, the psychological effects and being treated this way can be very difficult.
(source- Paul Melia- Irish Independent)
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