The facility is due to open next month.
An Independent councillor is raising health and safety concerns about a new direct-provision centre in Offaly.
The former Marian Hostel in Tullamore will accommodate up to 168 asylum-seekers, who'll arrive on a phased basis.
The centre will open early next month, and will have cooking facilities and a food hall for residents.
But Offaly councillor John Leahy says the plans are a joke.
He feels the plans are 'discriminating against ordinary citizens of Offaly'.
The first group will arrive in early March, and the centre will have 'independent living' facilities for residents.
But the Kilcormac councillor is strongly against the plans:
But Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins, a member of the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee, disagrees:
Deputy Collins takes a much different view about discrimination:
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