Nearly 200 asylum seekers listed as children and given Tusla accommodation later turned out to be adults

by PoppedCork

17 comments

  1. Nearly 200 adult asylum seekers were mistakenly placed in Tusla child accommodation over the past three years, with cases more than doubling. Confusion persists over whether Tusla or the IPO is responsible for age assessments, prompting criticism from TDs. Sinn Féin is calling for a more robust system to protect real minors, especially after a murder case revealed another supposed “minor” was actually an adult. New legislation is being developed to fix the process.

    Will there be funding to allow them follow the fix all legislation ?

  3. No this is impossible. I know from reading and being radicalised by r/Ireland that ALL asylum seekers are upstanding people and would never do this so I don’t know where they got the info in this story but it’s simply false

  4. The headline is very passive. Nearly 200 adult asylum seekers fraudulently presented as children, is the story.

    Given the scale of the issue we’ll probably have to start doing invasive tests on all older children coming to Ireland, subjecting genuine child asylum seekers to further misery in their presumably difficult lives. Still, better than housing them with adults I suppose.

  5. 200 out of how many?

    edit: Ireland took 18,651 asylum seekers last year, 198 lied about being under 18, so we are talking about 1.06% of them here.

  6. That’s pretty damning, but is anyone actually surprised? There’s is next to zero governance and when people can take flights here or up north using a passport they later destroy and still get protection status, how are we to verify? Too many people making a fortune from this, it’s beyond ridiculous. I agree that Ireland has a responsibility, but this is not sustainable.

  8. They should be auto deported for lying on their application

  9. Why are we allowing people into the country if we can’t verify their details absolute lack of common sense in this government.. madness.

  10. “This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen”

  11. Anyone who pointed this out before now was called racist.

  12. Say I’m a 20 year old immigrant, what’s the advantage for me to pretend I’m a child? Is it more likely my asylum claim will be accepted? Or something much worse

  13. A system built on pure blind trust, who could have expected this?

  14. I’m shocked.

    Shocked that’s all they’ve detected.

  15. I remember hearing about this and it sounds an absolute nightmare.

    In modernity it can be hard to spot an under 18 (16 year olds in adult night clubs for instance) both male and female.

    18 year olds claiming to be 17 is one thing, but when it’s 20 year olds trying to pass themselves off as 15? What a horrible situation for the staff. Because rightly we look at that people are telling the truth rather than they’re lying (or in legality innocent until proven guilty).

    But at the same time you cannot have adults in with children.

    Though one thing anecdotally I remember hearing is that what usually trips then up is when they end up back in school and are being told what when and where to go.

  17. > The figures come as a government TD hit out at “contradictory accounts” recently given over which agency is responsible for age verification within the international protection system. A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in October was told this is a matter for Tusla, but in follow-­up correspondence the Department of Justice clarified that this process falls under the remit of the IPO.

    Well that’s not great.

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