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Nasc will be closed from the end of the 22nd December and we'll reopen again on the 04th January 2021. You can read our 2020 updates here. Our team would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday…

Our Legal Information Service will be closed between 06th April 2021 and 09th April 2021 (inclusive). Our phone line will reopen again on Monday 12th April. If you have any other inquiries, please email reception@nascireland.org Thank you…

Like everyone else around the world, Nasc’s year has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. For us in Nasc, the pandemic quickly exposed the effects of inequality and social…

In light of the publication of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) submission to the Advisory Group on Direct Provision, Nasc would like to respond to some of the key concerns raised therein. As has been…

Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre are delighted to announce our four-part seminar series ‘Exploring the Day Report’. The seminar series co-hosted by University College Dublin Sutherland School of Law, begins on the 17th November…

UCD Sutherland School of Law and Nasc, Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre invite to you a series of short seminars discussing the recommendations of the Day Advisory Group, through reflections from those who issued the report, academic…

Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre and the Irish Refugee Council welcome the publication of the Report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support, including Accommodation, to Persons in the International Protection Process…

An advisory group's report on how Ireland processes asylum seeking applications is to recommend the complete abolition of the current direct provision system.  Commenting in the article, Nasc's Fiona Finn:  "We unequivocally welcome the…

NGOs who work with refugees and immigrants have called for a clearer and cross-departmental approach to solving the immigration permit backlog which has seen people waiting weeks for an appointment to renew their permission to remain.  …

The decision of the Dublin Circuit Court to overturn the Workplace Relations Commission declaration that the refusal to issue driving licences to asylum seekers is discriminatory will be bitterly disappointing to asylum seekers across the…