The number of international protection applicants who have not been offered any accommodation by the State has passed 3,000 for the first time.
It comes as a number of men who were offered "temporary accommodation" in Citywest due to the cold weather received emails today telling them that "as the cold weather has passed" their "temporary placement" was coming to an end and they had to leave by 10am tomorrow.
As part of the department's cold weather plan, all newly arrived asylum seekers were offered accommodation in Citywest.
The Department of Integration confirmed that: "The International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) cold weather response plan concludes on Wednesday 4 December. IPAS will continue to monitor weather forecasts and our cold weather response plan will be reactivated if extreme weather warnings issue.
"Following the conclusion of our cold weather plan, we will no longer be providing temporary accommodation at Citywest to new applicants registering at the International Protection Office (IPO)," a spokesperson said.
Tomorrow, it will be exactly a year since the State ceased offering accommodation to all male asylum seekers who present seeking international protection in Ireland, citing "significant shortages of accommodation".
Last month, the State lodged an appeal against a High Court judgment, delivered in August, which found that the State had failed in its duty to provide for basic needs of international protection applicants, including accommodation, breaching their right to dignity.
Women and children, men who are deemed "vulnerable" when triaged on arrival, are currently offered accommodation by the State.
Since last December, 736 of 6,407 men seeking asylum in Ireland were immediately accommodated after a vulnerability triage.
5,671 were initially refused accommodation when they presented.
3,001 remain unaccommodated.
The Irish Refugee Council has called this a "grim milestone".
"The situation is a direct affront to Ireland's commitment to human rights and dignity. Several High Court rulings have clearly stated the mandatory legal obligation to provide applicants with basic needs including accommodation and the insufficiency of the State’s current alternative offering," Irish Refugee Council Chief Executive Officer Nick Henderson said.
"We are also extremely concerned that, from tomorrow, people who were accommodated in City West during the cold weather initiative will be placed back on to the streets and that people newly arrived will not be offered accommodation unless they are deemed vulnerable. Met Éireann is forecasting a very unsettled spell of wet and very windy weather for the rest of this week," Mr Henderson said.
"We urge the current administration and moreover the new government, whatever form it may take, to act swiftly to create the needed capacity to restore the dignity and safety for people seeking protection."
Currently State accommodation is offered to male international protection applicants found rough sleeping by an outreach team organised by homeless charity Tiglin.
International protection applicants who are not provided with State accommodation receive an additional €75 per week, bringing the weekly amount they receive from the State to €113.80.
