Asylum seekers left without accommodation on arrival into the State are “placed in a situation of extreme material poverty”, but the State’s human rights watchdog failed to prove they are in “a state of degradation incompatible with human dignity”, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
The judgment, published on Wednesday, overturns a High Court finding that the State’s failure to provide accommodation for homeless asylum seekers was a breach of their fundamental right to dignity.
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) had brought the case in respect of a class of people, namely international protection applicants, who were not offered accommodation when they made their asylum claims having recently arrived in Ireland.
This morning on The Agenda we spoke to Liam Herrick, Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), to find out more about this.
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