Minister plans to make it much tougher for Ukrainian refugees to become Irish citizens
Andrii Stepanov says some people don’t want to return to what was once their home, and is now Russian territory. “Why are they pushing us to Russia?”
“It’s frustrating to be beside another building that is taking the look off the street,” says Ronan Lynch from the Swan Bar.
These were some of the issues on the agenda for Dublin city councillors at their monthly meeting on Monday.
The changes would “100 percent, unequivocally, lead to an increase in people sleeping outside”, says the CEO of a day centre for homeless people.
Mohamed Tienti says that the morning after it happened, he felt ashamed showing his face at work.
But the Honest2Goodness traders may have been pushing at the wrong door, as the warehouse appears to have new owners.
Some residents of Castle Court still aren’t back in their homes. “It’s awful to think … overnight this can just happen,” says local resident Helen Rooney.
Some of the meetings to discuss the city’s housing delivery and services have moved to closed-door workshops too.
Dublin city councillors at a budget meeting talked about funding to do up vacant social homes, and also for street cleaning.
“Today is the saddest day in Ballymun, when all the till dogs must go their merry way.”
Gazans resident in Ireland who aren’t Irish citizens face high hurdles in getting their family members out of the war zone to join them.
“The trial is the consultation,” Brendan O’Brian said, explaining the new Department of Transport guidelines for medium-sized projects.
“I am dealing with serious cases, people screaming and crying for houses,” says People Before Profit Councillor Hazel de Nortúin.