A total of 95 children and 112 adults are living in IPAS centres in Co Roscommon.
These asylum-seekers are being accommodated in four centres across the county.
A recent meeting of the Roscommon Integration Forum heard many asylum-seekers want to work - and experience anxiety and poor mental health when they can't.
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Asylum-seekers aren't allowed to work until they're in Ireland for at least six months.
Independent councillor Valerie Byrne, from Elphin, says that's too long:
