Reception and Integration Agency
- Reception and Integration Agency
The Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) was established by the Irish government on 2 April 2001. Resulting from the merger of the Direcorate for Asylum Support Services and the Refugee Agency (which was part of the Department of Foreign Affairs), it is part of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
The RIA is responsible for coordinating the provision of services to both asylum seekers and refugees, coordinating the implementation of integration policy for all refugees and persons granted leave to remain in the Republic of Ireland and responding to crisis situations which may result in large numbers of refugees arriving in the country.
One of the tasks of the RIA under the Government's policy of direct provision is to provide residential accommodation and ancillary services to asylum seekers while they await the outcome of their applications for asylum in the country. To meet this requirement, the Accommodation Procurement Unit of the agency has contracted various private companies to provide these services at several accommodation centres around the country, the largest being at Mosney.
After a government decision of 2 March 2004, the RIA was also assigned responsibility for supporting the repatriation, on an ongoing basis for the Department of Social and Family Affairs, of nationals of the ten new EU member states (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia) who might fail the Habitual Residency Condition attaching to Social Assistance Payments.
External links
* [http://www.ria.gov.ie/ RIA website]
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