The Government is considering introducing a charging model for residents of IPAS centres who are working.<\/p>\n
Ministers will meet tomorrow to discuss signing off on contributions of between \u20ac15 and \u20ac238 per week, depending on earnings.<\/p>\n
It is thought that such a system could take nine to 12 months to implement.<\/p>\n
Non-payment could be pursued through debt collection.<\/p>\n
However, there are understood to be concerns raised about the feasibility of recouping contributions, given the limited scope for enforcement mechanisms.<\/p>\n
The Programme for Government contained a commitment to require international protection applicants to contribute towards their accommodation costs.<\/p>\n
The proposals are being brought forward by the Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan and the Minister of State for Migration Colm Brophy.<\/p>\n
They will be discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Migration tomorrow night, which will also include Government leaders and senior officials.<\/p>\n
Separately, the gathering will also consider a significant tightening of entitlements for Ukrainians in State provided accommodation.<\/p>\n
Ministers are considering reducing the entitlement for new arrivals from Ukraine to state accommodation from 90 Days to 30 days.<\/p>\n
In recent months, there has been a large increase in those arriving in Ireland from Ukraine under the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive.<\/p>\n
Another proposal is to refuse to provide accommodation to beneficiaries of temporary protection who arrive from secondary movement and have previously held temporary protection in another member state.<\/p>\n
These changes could come in quickly.<\/p>\n
There is a further proposal to introduce a time limit to those in state accommodation who arrived pre-March 2024 when rules changed.<\/p>\n
This could be introduced early next year with a six to nine month notification period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government is considering introducing a charging model for residents of IPAS centres who are working. Ministers will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-118226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}