Councillors wants communities to be consulted before plans are put in place for accommodation.
The Department to Integration will be asked to develop a policy around consulting with communities ahead of the housing of asylum seekers.
Westmeath County Council agreed to send a letter to the State, after repeated calls for such from councillors.
The local authority recently met with the Government's Community Engagement Team, however Councillors Denis Leonard and Paul Hogan raised concerns with its policy of consulting with communities after plans were already put in place to accommodate asylum seekers.
The two representatives raised similar concerns at the week's meeting of Westmeath County Council, and new CEO, Barry Kehoe, committed to requesting the Integration Department put a new policy in place.
Taoiseach Warns Of Threats To Energy And Communication Cables
Irish Farmers To Join EU-Wide Protest In Brussels
Four Men Released Without Charge After Midlands Prison Assault Arrests
Community Mourns Mary Holt As Colleagues Lead Funeral Procession In Edenderry
Calls Grow For 24 Hour Garda Station In Edenderry After Arson Attack
Appeal Date Set For Jozef Puska Over Murder Of Ashling Murphy
Offaly Town Demands Meeting With Garda Commissioner And Justice Minister
Ireland’s First Kidney Pancreas Transplant Recipient Dies Aged 68
Quality Of Life To Drive Offaly’s Appeal For Foreign Investment - Anna Marie Delaney
Hundreds Of Mourners Gather For Tadgh Farrell's Funeral
Dancing With The Stars ‘A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity’ - Rose Of Tralee
Uisce Éireann To Submit €6b Water Project Plan
Pedestrian Killed In Midlands Crash
Maura Higgins Set For Traitors US
Man Taken To Hospital Following Alleged Westmeath Assault
Osteoarthritis Programme Launched At Midlands Hospital
Laois County Fire And Rescue Service Welcomes Two New Fire Appliances
Offaly TD Welcomes New IDA Ireland Investment