Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion

9:00 am

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I said, the proposal will allow unclaimed funds that otherwise would be lost before the end of the year to be available for future spending. It allows an extension of time and allows us to make revisions to our national programmes to use the funds for relocation as well as other actions. We are very anxious to do this now because if we do not we will lose the money.

I am certainly concerned about the situation between Libya and the European Union. Anybody who we return is not returned to a conflict zone. We are anxious to facilitate people coming to Ireland who find they want to go back home and this is paid for. They can be returned to their own home countries if they wish and a number of people do this each year. I can supply the committee with these figures if members wish. People who come here do want to go back.

As I said, there is no cost to the Exchequer but we will have additional funding available because of it. The other questions were-----

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