Homeless Afghan man takes Waterford council to court over accommodation provision

Yellow_Fern

"A homeless Afghan man has brought a High Court challenge aimed at compelling Waterford City and County Council to help provide him with suitable accommodation.

In his action, the man claims that he has been unable to obtain proper accommodation, except night-to-night emergency accommodation from the council which he says is unsuitable for his needs."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41278135.html

tikka16751

He should have got a free 5 bed house with a battery car.

Wanderer78

...yup, we re knee deep in a housing crisis, and foreigners and other sections of society are gonna be ultimately blamed for it, when it fact, its our own fault for placing this critical need into the hands of more wealth gaining entities from the whole process.....

Isthisthingon?

Was there not something similar in the courts earlier this year. Turns out it was a test case taken by the refugee council on behalf of someone.

I doubt it very much that a homeless assylm seeker took it upon himself to launch a high court case against the state.

As a previous poster said, this guy will be blamed for the failings of this state for the absolute mess that is the housing crisis.

zell12

In fairness, singletons/couples are literally left on the street indefinitely as all the (1988) law requires is to register someone as homeless. This sounds like a case to change Irish law. Either way it is a good thing. How is it acceptable to leave someone on the street?

He also seeks:

- orders requiring the local authority to reconsider in a lawful manner his homeless accommodation needs

- several declarations from the court including that the council's alleged policy of only providing four emergency beds for single men is unlawful

- that his Constitutional and ECHR rights are not being vindicated.

Ash.J.Williams

This is where the government need to stand up and face the reality, we cannot provide accommodation so we need to start rejecting asylum and enforcing their deportation orders and stop fueling the far-right

toxicity234

So the Council offer accomadation,

He refused (cause he didn't understand cause he has bad english)

and is now in Court representing himself,

After refusing a offer cause he didn't understand.

But understand that his "Constitutional and ECHR rights are not being vindicated"

Anyone see an issue here!

Ezeoul

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121428120#Comment_121428120

I expect this will turn out to be something similar - a test case with some organisation behind it.

Padraig Mor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058324749/homeless-afghan-man-takes-waterford-council-to-court-over-accommodation-provision

No doubt bankrolled and hand held by one of the myriad migrant industry NGOs - quite possibly the same one who handled the Parnell Square Algerian's deportation appeal.

johnsparkexile

Having read the article, I'm a bit confused and am wondering if anyone can answer the following questions.

1 He fled Afghanistan because he worked for the American Military. Why didn't he claim asylum off them?

2 Why did he leave the accommodation provided during his asylum application ? The media has told us numerous times that successful applicants refuse to leave as there is no accommodation available and are not evicted.

3 Once he was granted asylum, I take it that he has the same rights and privileges as an Irish citizen ?

4 If the answer to question 3 is yes, what differentiates him from the other homeless men in Waterford?

5 Why did whoever is funding this case use this mans situation and not take up the case of the old man in the car who is claiming something similar, i.e. council wont house him.

The fact that there is only 4 beds for single males in Waterford is scandalous, the number of homeless men must be multiples of that number.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121431989#Comment_121431989

....yup, we ve made a complete fcuk of our property markets, its so fcuked now, we ve decided the best thing to do is simply blame others such as foreigner's..

...im sure this approach will work out just fine in the end.....

johnsparkexile

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121432473#Comment_121432473

Where am I blaming the foreigner?

The blame for the housing crisis and the explosion in the number of homeless people throughout the country lies firmly at the feet of the Government, their actions and failure to act are to blame.

HerrKuehn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121432473#Comment_121432473

He is contributing to demand and I think a lot of people would agree if you were to line people up in terms of deserving to be housed by the Irish state he would be way, way down the list. It certainly makes more sense to me that he would be looked after in the US, seeing as he was helping their military out.

highpressisbest

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121432473#Comment_121432473

Housing for All and we mean all.

Gatling

And it's not the first case recently one arrived in the country from Afghanistan and within a week he had the government in the high court and won compensation because he wasn't provided with accommodation on arrival

highpressisbest

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121433644#Comment_121433644

Proper order. It’s Ireland’s duty to house the world because Irish people emigrated previously or because of white privilege or something like that anyway.

Cabaal

Funny how we suddenly have lots of people here that never post in the Waterford forum.

I'm closing this thread now, I'm sure there are plenty forums where ye can discuss immigrants.