Policing Authority calls for more information to be provided to Gardai on locations of international protection centres.

The Policing Authority have called on the Government to improve their communications with Gardaí over the areas that are selected for international protection centres.

In recent times it has been mentioned that accommodation in Ballyshannon in Co Donegal and Dromahair in Leitrim.

The moves have been met by strong opposition in both areas with moves to deploy refugees to the respective sites temporally on hold.

Another potential site to house asylum seekers was burnt to the ground following anti-immigrant protests in Galway.

The Garda Commissioner has said that Gardai were not officially notified of plans to accommodate asylum seekers in the Ross Lake Hotel.