Mr. Jody Clarke:

We would certainly be interested in exploring new ways of doing things. Reference was made to our own history, and ironically, the word "Éireannach" comes from refugee scholars in the Irish College in Leuven who fled Ireland in the years following the Flight of the Earls. We could look to Ireland's own history even before the 1800s.

For World Refugee Day we had 500 posters on Dublin buses with two profiles. One was a Vietnamese man who came here in the 1970s and has a restaurant in Parnell Street. The other profile was an Iraqi lady who lives in Cork. Under each image there was as short quote from the person and three words. The Iraqi lady's poster said that she was forced to flee but that Ireland had given her a home. It then states the three words "Iraqi," "Mum," and "Bioscientist." She works at University College Cork now.

In other countries, such as Hungary, the UNHCR has a similar poster campaign showing the contribution refugees have made there. It had a similar campaign in the United Kingdom recently, showing the enormous contribution refugees have made there.

This is something those in the UNHCR have always done, as can be seen from any of our public information materials. For example, T-shirts for sale on our website advertise that Einstein was a refugee. We are interested in exploring new ways of providing information and any way this committee could assist in that would be much appreciated.