Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In response to Deputy Durkan, there is concern on the part of the neighbouring host countries that the international community is not doing enough in respect of accepting a burden of the refugees from Syria who are piling into neighbouring countries. They believe that the international community seems to be satisfied with providing humanitarian aid but that this is not enough to relieve the burden on them because they are small and fragile countries. Lebanon is only the size of Munster and has a population of 4.3 million. Jordan is similar. Both countries are incredibly fragile. The history of both countries has been very difficult. They want the international community to accept some of the burden in terms of taking refugees and assisting them in supporting services and-----