It comes an additional 350 beds for asylum seekers are due to open this week.
The Government is set to announce a €50 million fund to encourage community engagement around accommodating asylum seekers.
The State has released a tender for a new communication strategy, which it hopes will boost lines of communications between local communities and the Government.
It comes an additional 350 beds for asylum seekers are due to open this week.
Junior Integration Minister Joe O'Brien says he wants to see local people being informed of these changes faster:
The Tanaiste has said asylum seekers in this country "are not a threat to society".
There have been protests outside a hotel accommodating asylum seekers in Clare this week.
The Integration Minister has told Clare TDs and Senators that the hotel in Inch will not be closing.
Last Friday in Dublin meanwhile, a fire was lit on a laneway in which asylum seekers were staying in tents.
Tanaiste Micheál Martin says some groups are spreading fear and hate, which is completely wrong:
Minister Simon Harris says additional funding is being put towards community engagement to help ease tensions like that in Clare:
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