Barriers have been erected along the Grand Canal in Dublin in places where tents have not yet been pitched.
It comes as barriers were installed along other parts of the canal and areas on Mount Street following the removal of tents belonging to unaccommodated asylum seekers, in an effort to prevent more tents being pitched.
More than 100 tents were removed from the Grand Canal yesterday in a multi-agency operation.
However a further encampment of 30 tents was set up further along the Grand Canal overnight.
This included 26 tents along a stretch of the canal banks between the McCartney Bridge and the Leeson Street Bridge.
There were at least four more tents further along the canal, going away from the river.
Many of the people living in the tents along the Grand Canal this evening said they did not want to speak to the media.
Olivia Headon, a volunteer, was back on the canal bank handing out water and talking to the men camped there today.
She said many of the men in the new encampment had arrived after the last one was cleared.
Ms Headon said others had just arrived in Ireland in recent days, while a small number had received a blue card as a refugee but had not yet been offered accommodation.
She said: "There's some people who've been here for longer but were sleeping rough in other parts of the city and now this message is going out there with these repeated geographical accommodation offers, so where you're sleeping, equals whether or not you'll get accommodation, is sort of the message that's being sent out to people.
"There isn't sanitation, there's no toilet facilities, there's no running water and nobody wants to live like this whether they're Irish homeless people or people seeking asylum. It's just not what Dublin or Ireland should be."
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Asylum seekers that were removed from the canal yesterday were relocated to other accommodation in locations including Crooksling and the former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum.
The area where the tents had been pitched along the Grand Canal is less than 400 metres from the International Protection Office (IPO) on Mount Street, where hundreds of tents were removed the previous week.
It is understood that as of last night, 168 people were moved from a section between Mount Street Bridge and the Huband Bridge area of the Grand Canal.
A spokesperson for Waterways Ireland, which is responsible for maintaining the canal, said: "Whilst temporary barriers have been erected as a mitigation measure, access to the towpath and footpath adjacent to the canal is unimpeded.
"Waterways Ireland is continuing to work with multi-agency partners in the best interests of all concerned."
'Operation' to be put in place after latest encampment
Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he expects more accommodation solutions for asylum seekers to come on stream.
He insisted that a repeat of the situation on Mount Street, where people remained in tents for months, cannot be allowed to happen.
Mr Harris said that accommodation offered to some refugees in the future may involve the use of tents with sanitary facilities on public sites.
He said that he was working with his Government colleagues to agree on a sustainable migration policy and he hopes to have "more news" on that in days ahead.
Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien has said an "operation" will be put in place to move those who are currently in tents along the Grand Canal and put them in "safe and secure" accommodation.
Mr O'Brien said the Government has been clear that they do not want to see International Protection applicants in tents and said they have been working "day and night" dealing with the issue.
Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman said additional accommodation will be brought on over the next week to deal with those currently sleeping rough.
He said the key issue was the availability of supply and said there has been significant additional places secured over the last two weeks.
Mr O'Gorman said over 450 people who were living in tents in the city centre have been offered accommodation.
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Speaking on RTÉ'S Today with Colm Ó Mongáin, Minister of State Martin Heydon said he hoped the announcement of the six sites for accommodation centres, their capacity and public communication on it would be "very soon".
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe said that the number of people seeking asylum in Ireland so far this year has reached over 7,600.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said: "It is important to be open and honest about that and to put that in context again.
"We used to have about 3,000 people per year coming to Ireland looking for asylum, looking for refuge.
"By the middle of May, that figure was at 7,667, so we saw by not even halfway through this year twice what we used to get in a year."
Mr Donohoe said that people should not be living in tents and an alternative would be offered.
"In the short term, what we are doing in processing and emergency accommodation is necessary," he said.
"We are going to have them in an alternative, but it is emergency accommodation while we are building up the state-owned and run beds."
No plan to move IPO
Social Democrats TD for Dublin Central Gary Gannon said he is concerned about the absence of a plan in relation to the numbers of asylum seekers living in tents in Dublin.
Speaking on the same programme, he said he is "flabbergasted that we simply don't have a hold on this issue".
Mr Gannon said with the Taoiseach "talking tough in the Dáil" about removing tents, "we are pushing them more down to the ports".
He said the fact that the six State-run reception centres called for in the 2021 Catherine Day report (updated in 2023) have not emerged is a "very clear indictment of this Government".
Meanwhile the Department of Justice said that there were no plans move the IPO from its current location.
The confirmation follows a call by residents in the Mount Street area for the asylum processing facility to be moved to an alternative site.
Residents from around the area welcomed yesterday's operation but said more needs to be done.
"In the space of under a week it had grown to 100 tents, so we are relieved to see it removed," said Kevin Byrne, the chair of the South Georgian Core Residents Association.
"But the main thing to note is that this is the fourth time in a year that an operation like this has been required in the area and that's why we would be of the view that the IPO processing can no longer be safely operated in the city centre and needs to moved to a location where wrap-around services for the inflow that the State is getting can be provided, we can't provide security, sanitation and other important basic services on city centre streets," he added.
Analysis: Removal of Grand Canal tents a temporary fix on International Protection issue
The Department of Justice said by doubling the number of staff and trebling the number of IPO decisions capacity had continued to "ramp up" within the international protection system.
There are also plans to increase "processing capacity".
A second facility for families and accompanied children under 18 years old, has been operating at Citywest for the past month, to ensure that "as many applications as possible" are registered on the day of application.
The number of interview rooms at Mount Street has also doubled in recent months, to 40.
Additional reporting Eithne Dodd, Ailbhe Conneely, Laura Fletcher, Tommy Meskill, Conor Hunt
