Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Irish Refugee Council

10:30 am

Photo of Mick WallaceMick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am probably cheating a bit by going off the subject, but given that the witnesses have a very good understanding of the issues, do they think the Government could look at the idea of screening unaccompanied minors in camps like Calais and Dunkirk? With EU policy and the Greece-Turkey deal, a situation in which only Syrians are really being entertained, those being pushed back from Greece are being replaced by Syrians who have not come over already. What can be done about, for example, people like the Kurds from Iraq and Afghans, whose country has absolutely collapsed and is divided up between the Taliban and ISIS at the moment? Is there any way the notion that the EU will say no to the Kurds and the Afghans can be challenged or addressed?

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