Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Disability Funding and Disability Proofing Budget 2019: Discussion
4:00 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
Can I ask one last question? It is very short. I forgot about it with the initial questions. When refugees come into the country, do the witnesses keep an eye on the extent to which, as part of our refugee resettlement and acceptance programmes, we try to assist people with disabilities? I ask because I am dealing with a family from Gaza who are in Turkey. Four of them are severely disabled. They cannot go back to Gaza, for obvious reasons, and are stranded in Turkey. I am trying to see if I can help them to resettle here. Is there any focus on that? I suppose the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Department of Justice and Equality deal with that. Do we ensure that we help people with disabilities who are looking to come into the country through resettlement or otherwise?
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