Public Rally: No to Racism - No to Direct Provision

Refugees Welcome - Build Public Housing

**We're assembling in Eyre Square and meeting the residents of the Great Western Direct Provision centre. We'll be marching to the Spanish Arch for speeches and then onto the Eglinton Direct Provision centre in Salthill .

Almost 20 years as a "temporary" measure, Direct Provision is a cruel and inhumane asylum system that warehouses asylum seekers outside of communities, denying them basic rights and forcing them to live off less than €30 a week.

People with residency are stuck in centres because of the inefficiency of the system and a worsening housing crisis. Many asylum seekers who recently arrived are living in hostels and B&Bs as all of the DP centres are full.

These centres are mostly privately run where the owners turn over a huge profit with contracts from the Government. The secretive tendering process to find new centres is focused…