Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Migrant Crisis: Discussion
9:00 am
Ms Fiona Finn:
We would not have. No NGOs would have, unless they actively go there. One is looking at people who are coming in under the EU relocation. We do not have any direct access to that. That scheme is being delivered by officials from the Department of Justice and Equality, who are going out to identify families and those who are trying to come into Ireland from Greece and Italy. We do not have any links.
What we have are people living in Ireland who have family members in Greece, Italy and Calais. It is a matter of making those links. For instance, we have one guy who has a brother in Calais and a programme of this kind would enable his brother to come safely from Calais to Ireland, not necessarily to Cork.
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