The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has told the Dáil that he is working to ensure that "disjointed actions" that led to asylum seekers having to give up jobs they held in nursing homes throughout the pandemic "don't happen again." Minister Roderic O'Gorman was responding to concerns raised by Labour TD Seán Sherlock and Irish Solidarity/People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith, following a report by RTÉ News that two healthcare workers had to leave their jobs as they were told they could no longer avail of a HSE temporary accommodation scheme.
They were then moved to direct provision centres between 90km and 200km from their places of work. This is despite the fact that the HSE maintains that the temporary