Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 July 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean: Médecins Sans Frontières

9:30 am

Photo of Maureen O'SullivanMaureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

At issue is the process by which migrants are sent to these detention centres in Libya. Countries like Malta are knowingly, I believe, sending people to these detention centres, which are prison camps to all intents and purposes. The call should go out that there should be a ban on any country sending migrants to the detention centres while these human rights abuses are going on.

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