The Department of Integration has offered "temporary shelter" to unaccommodated International Protection applicants who are rough sleeping this weekend in response to Storm Kathleen.
The weekend accommodation is understood to be in military tents, however not all rough sleeping asylum seekers have received the offer.
In a statement provided to the RTÉ News at One programme, a spokesperson said: "In response to reports of Storm Kathleen and potential extreme weather in Ireland over the weekend, IPAS (the International Protection Accommodation Service) is providing an offer of temporary shelter for persons who are actively rough sleeping.
"The arrangements will be temporary in nature and will be available for the duration of the extreme weather event."
RTÉ News understands that rough sleeping asylum seekers who have been referred to IPAS have been contacted by email and offered temporary accommodation for this weekend.
This differs to what happened during a period of heavy snow in early March, when people were bussed from the informal tented settlement outside the International Protection Office to temporary alternative accommodation.
This evening, some of the over 100 rough sleeping asylum seekers currently living in tents on the streets around the International Protection Office in Dublin 2 told RTÉ News that they had not received any offer for temporary accommodation over the weekend, while others had.
An emailed offer, seen by RTÉ News, told the recipient that they had been "identified as eligible" and that the available accommodation was in military tents on an IPAS site in Dundrum in Dublin.
The Irish Refugee Council has raised concerns that recent arrivals and others may be excluded from this offer of temporary shelter.
"We are concerned by the scope and way this offer has been made to people," Chief Executive Nick Henderson said. "Not everyone who is unaccommodated will have been referred to IPAS."
Rough sleeper referrals are made to IPAS by homeless services, gardaí and other support services, as a means of placing a person on a priority accommodation list.
However, the IRC and others have highlighted that not all rough sleeping asylum seekers are being referred to IPAS under this system.
"Also, this offer is only temporary, people will be put back out on to the street on Monday," Mr Henderson added, meaning that some people may "prefer to stay in their current tent, protect it and make sure it isn't damaged or destroyed".
Earlier, a Department spokesperson confirmed to RTÉ News that the temporary accommodation would not be at the Crooksling site in north county Dublin where people are accommodated in non-military tents.
A spokesperson for the Department of Integration said that those who are staying at Crooksling will be able to avail of indoor facilities on site, such as the dining area, during the extreme weather event.
Scores of unaccommodated International Protection applicants are once again living in tents on the streets around the International Protection Office in Dublin 2.
On Saturday 16 March, around 150 unaccommodated International Protection Applicants living there were moved to an alternative site in Crooksling in Co Dublin and the area was cleared.
However, in the days that followed tents reappeared at the site.
Some of those who had been moved to Crooksling and offered tents there returned, citing concerns about the remote nature of the site and how exposed it was to the elements.
Asylum seekers who arrived in the country since the 16 March are also among those rough sleeping in the area.
The number of International Protection applicants who remain without any offer of State provided shelter continues to rise, passing 1,600 today.
The latest figures published by the Department of Integration show there are now 1,620 asylum seekers without any offer of State provided shelter, up 91 since Tuesday.
The Department does not include those staying in non-military tents, such as those in Crooksling, as among those formally "accommodated" by the State.
The State ceased offering accommodation to all eligible male asylum seekers who present seeking International Protection, citing a "severe shortage" in available accommodation.
Since then, 2271 men have presented seeking protection in Ireland.
Just 239 have been offered accommodation following a vulnerability triage when they first presented.
Some 412 men who were initially refused accommodation received a subsequent offer of a space, and all were prioritised for accommodation because they were either rough sleeping or were deemed medically or otherwise vulnerable.
