Accompanying Residents in Direct Provision

Eyre Powell in Newbridge, Co Kildare, is one of over 30 Direct Provision Centres in Ireland.

What are Direct Provision Centres?

• They are institutions in which people who come to seek refuge in Ireland are accommodated.
• They are run by private companies and receive government funding.
• Here they receive food and shelter while their application for asylum is being processed.
• The length of time this process takes varies from months to years.
• Some have waited for 10 years.

To see the local parish community outreach to residents of Eyre Powell, view this  power point DD