Tipperary councillor wants an end to the movement of asylum seekers without consultation

Nenagh councillor Seamus Morris is calling on Tipperary County Council to ask the International Protection Office or the relevant Ministers to cease the movement of International Protection Applicants - “asylum seekers” - into town and villages without first of all contacting local councils to see if the facilities for IPS “asylum seekers” are in place, and if the proposed building offered for them are suitable .

He wants that contact with the council should happen when the building is offered and the local council should be part of the decisionmaking process, thereby taking out what he term the “secrecy “ in the process that exists at the moment.

He further wants Tipperary County Council to propose that all IPAs applicants should be fully vetted, have Garda clearance and should have successfully have made it through the asylum process before they are moved around the country.