Harris thanks agencies for their work in moving migrants from ‘shantytown’
At least 285 people have been removed from a makeshift migrant camp in Dublin city centre following a multi-agency operation on Wednesday.
In recent months, migrants have been sleeping rough beside the city’s International Protection Office on Mount Street as the state struggles to source enough accommodation for people seeking asylum.
On Wednesday, the asylum seekers were moved to international protection facilities at the Citywest hotel and at a site at Crooksling in Co Dublin, the Government said.
Taoiseach Simon Harris, who previously compared the scenes to a “shantytown”, thanked the agencies involved in the large operation to relocate the migrants and clear the tents for
