Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Migrant Crisis: Discussion
10:00 am
Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I thank the witnesses for the clarification they have given us. In general, people have greatly welcomed the announcement that 4,000 refugees will come here on the resettlement programmes. I am just wondering about family reunification. There is such immense goodwill and I know that under the Syrian humanitarian admission programme currently in operation, only one in three of those who applied - about 114 family members - were able to join their family in Ireland. Will the family reunification for people coming in under these new programmes be operated swiftly and perhaps with higher levels of admission? I understand the witnesses may not be able to answer that at present.
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