The human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has criticised the current policy used to process requests from asylum seekers.
It said it would lead to more incidents like the hunger strike by Afghan protestors in Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral last week.
Amnesty's Irish Secretary General Colm Ó Cuanacháin said that holding asylum seekers for long periods in temporary accommodation without access to education or employment created ‘an unnecessary climate of fear and tension’.
