TRANSFER OF LISBROOK CENTRE RESIDENTS UNDERWAY

Date Published: 18-Oct-2012

Residents of a city asylum centre say the majority of the 250 tenants have accepted the Government's transfer plans.

However, many families and some single people are not happy with being moved from Lisbrook House, which they say has become a home over the years.

The Department of Justice announced last week that Lisbrook House would close by the end of this month quoting reasons such as cost, and the availability of 1200 beds elsewhere in the country.

25 staff will lose their jobs when the centre closes.

The transfer of residents is already underway, with some single men being moved to an asylum centre in Eyre Square.

A handful of protestors, including some residents, are demonstrating outside the facility at the former IBIS hotel off the Headford Road.

Dennis Williams from Madagascar has a partner and two young children and says he is unhappy with transfer plans.