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Moville hotelier still wants asylum centre but councillor says it will never pass fire test -Ireland
Moville hotelier still wants asylum centre but councillor says it will never pass fire test - Ireland
Aoife, the daughter of the owner of the Caiseal Mara hotel which was earmarked to accommodate 100 asylum seekers in Moville, Donegal, told Greg Hughes on Highland Radio that the Direct Provision centre will '100% go ahead' despite how devastated she and her father were about the arson attack on the hotel which occurred on Sunday morning. The fire destroyed the reception area of the hotel and considerable repairs are needed. Her father had to climb out a bedroom window to escape the blaze and could have died. Aoife told Greg that she and her family had received vile threats and harassment online and from locals in the town in the preceding days over their plans to turn the hotel into a Direct Provision centre.
However, Fianna Fáil councillor Paul Canning said that the hotel would never pass a fire test and consequently wouldn't be able to house asylum seekers. A fire certificate is required for the hotel before anyone can be moved in. He said the Fire Department is much more stringent with rules and regulations after a series of high profile fires around the world and they were "putting businesses through the mill," even going as far as to order two centimeters to be shaved off some doorways. As the hotel was old, he didn't believe it would meet current requirements.
'I can rest assure you now, that hotel won't pass fire regulations'
Cllr Canning said the decision to house asylum seekers in Moville should now be reversed.
Cllr Canning also questioned why there is no change of use permission needed to allow a hotel be used as a Direct Provision centre while if someone from Muff wishes to build in Moville, they could be turned down on the basis that they are ‘not local’.
Greg Hughes told Cllr Canning that he was the first public representative to take a stand against the Direct Provision centre. Canning said the town could perhaps accommodate 10 or 15 asylum seekers but 100 was much too many and they'd have nothing to do all day. He said he believed 100 asylum seekers would cause a considerable strain on the town's resources.
At 1 hour, 5 minutes into the show on Tuesday, Greg heard from a guest house owner in Convoy, Donegal called Gerry. Gerry told Greg that the Department of Justice had offered him a £360,000 six month contract to take 48 asylum seekers at their guest house back in 1998. As part of the contract, Gerry would have to employ a cook and two maintenance workers.
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=89ZCjk33sI8
Broadcast: Nine Til Noon | November 27, 2018
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