Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I cannot help feeling that the Government has been less keen to take in other nationalities. When Deputy Clare Daly and myself went to Calais and Dunkirk, Calais was predominantly Afghan and Dunkirk was predominantly Kurd. There seems to be less of an appetite to engage with them, which is unfortunate.

The Syrians that I would have met in both camps were a minority in both camps but they were much better off than the Afghans and the Kurds. If truth be told, the Afghans and the Kurds were even more in need of help, although I am not undermining the horrific situation of the Syrians.