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:

Personally, what I would like to say is that in our response to this crisis, compassion and humanity must be what guides us. We should be less concerned about numbers - 4,000, or 2,000 - for settlement or relocation. As a country, we must look at this with compassion and humanity. We did not do so well in the aftermath of World War 2 when we only accepted 30 Jewish refugees. We now have an opportunity to be on the right side of history and to be judged well for this in years to come.

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