For the first time since 24 January the Department of Integration has confirmed that all newly arrived asylum seekers will once again be offered accommodation when they present seeking international protection.
Since that date, a total of 1,542 asylum seekers were not initially offered accommodation when they first presented, and they often had to wait weeks and sometimes months to be offered a place. All have now been offered accommodation.
A spokesperson for the Department said: "The Department is now in a position to offer accommodation to all IP applicants, however, the accommodation system remains under pressure and the situation will be kept under close review."
On Monday, the Department offered 70 asylum seekers who were still waiting on accommodation a place, but those who arrived on or after Monday were still not offered accommodation.
Between Monday and Wednesday 62 more adults left without, but all have now been offered accommodation.
On 24 January the State ceased automatically offering accommodation to adults who presented without children, amid an accommodation shortage.
At the time, Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman estimated this policy would last until mid-February, however it has rolled on for months as the accommodation shortage persisted.
At the peak on 3 May, there were 593 asylum seekers without State provided accommodation.
Many slept rough and an informal tented settlement grew around the International Protection Office, off Mount Street in Dublin 2.
In a report released earlier this week, the Irish Refugee Council said some people "had been forced to rough sleep for upwards of 70 days" before they received an offer of State provided accommodation, describing the situation as "a new low".
