Residents of Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford, are planning on staging major protests in the coming days over plans to install a second IPAS (International Protection Accommodation Services) centre in the village.
The Department of Integration has confirmed that plans are in place to transform the old Great Southern Hotel building in Rosslare Harbour into accommodation for international protection applicants.
Women and children were lifted into a rubber dinghy and evacuated from their homes in The Haven in Rosslare Strand on Monday as floodwaters slowly made their way into more than 15 homes there.