Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Supporting the Irish Community: London Irish Centre

3:05 pm

Mr. Gary Dunne:

Our role has been central. Professor Liam Kennedy from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School came to visit our senior management team and I met him with David and Jenny, our director of welfare. Our initial meeting related more to older emigrants from the 1950s and 1960s wave. I presume most members know that related to the ten-year review of the emigrant support programme and looking to future needs.

This week we gathered a group of young migrants as a focus group for Professor Kennedy to meet. The meeting has not happened yet but there is a huge interest from people wishing to take part. The meeting should happen in the coming weeks. He was very pleased that we had access to that demographic.

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