Around 1,000 people have taken part in a protest in Co Wexford against Government plans for another centre to accommodate around 400 international protection applicants at the former Great Southern Hotel in Rosslare.
Traffic to and from Rosslare Europort was disrupted during the protest, with two ferries docking there between midday and 1pm.
There are already around 200 people who have been granted temporary protection being accommodated in Rosslare Harbour, while another 90 applicants for international protection are also being accommodated there.
Local representatives, who are opposed to the plans, say the area is at saturation point.
They say local schools are full and there is no spare capacity in public and other services in the area.
Protest coordinator Niamh Dennis said local people want a nursing home for the area, not another IPAS centre.
"We can't take another IPAS centre," Niamh Dennis told RTÉ News. "We already have one IPAS centre.
"Any hotel, any bed free in this village is already being used for the needs of refugees and what we need is a nursing home.
"We need a nursing home, somewhere for our elderly to go."
Local woman Bernie Mullen, who is Community Liaison Officer with Rosslare Harbour Concerned Residents, said local people will continue to protest 24/7 until the decision to locate another IPAS centre in the village is reversed.
"To put a fourth accommodation centre is just not good enough, sorry, and that is why we are here today," she said.
"We will be here 24/7 for as long as it takes for the minister to turn around and realise that this is not happening in Rosslare Harbour."
At a meeting with local public representatives on Wednesday, Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman underlined the pressure on his officials to provide accommodation for more than 25,000 international protection applicants already in Ireland, as well as those who continue to arrive here and those fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Wexford County Council has referred a number of planning issues relating to the former Great Southern Hotel site to An Bórd Pleanála.
Minister O'Gorman has said no contract will be signed for the use of the former hotel to accommodate international protection candidates until these matters have been resolved.
A local group campaigning for the provision of a nursing home in the area say it has lodged a legal challenge with An Bórd Pleanála to planning permission for the former Great Southern Hotel site.
Local people have also been maintaining a round-the-clock protest at the former hotel since Wednesday.
Hundreds march in Killarney over fifth IP centre
Separately, hundreds of people have taken part in a march in Killarney, Co Kerry over a hotel that is set to host 70 international protection applicants.
The march began at Fair Hill and proceeded along the town centre ending at the Kingscourt Harmony Inn on the Muckross Road, where around 250 people gathered.
It follows two public meetings which have called on the Department of Integration to halt sending numbers of refugees and asylum seekers to the town.
There are around 3,000 Ukrainian and International Protection Applicants in Killarney.
The Kingscourt Harmony Inn represents the fifth International Protection centre for the town.
Among those who attended the march was Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae, his daughter and local councillor Marua Healy-Rae and independent councillor Martin Grady.
In a statement, the residents said the plan to place over 70 residents into a 22-bedroom house was "inhumane".
There was a garda presence throughout the march and residents had consulted with gardaí before the march and had agreed not to have loudspeakers.
