John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State takes an interest in the number of Ukrainian individuals and families who are here. The same level of information on international protection applicants should be available to the Government, including on how they arrived, whether they arrived with or without passports or paperwork and the number of men, women and children, and families. That is a huge piece of information which is absent from the Government's consideration of policy and so on. While there is limited information and analysis in the Department of Justice, the CSO should be collecting all of the data so that, using the information the Department has, complemented by the work the Minister of State might do, we would get a better picture of what is going on in the country and each of the counties, and indeed a profile of what countries are represented by that movement of people.