Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

At the moment, from an Irish point of view, there is not much likelihood of that kind of support becoming available. If the European Union does make a decision to change the recovery fund that is in place or find new ways of making funding available, I think the vast majority of that will be available to countries that are on the front line of receiving people into their jurisdictions. At the moment no such additional funding is available. If that were to change, I think the vast majority of it would be available elsewhere. Of course, we would look for our fair share of it, but Poland now has more than 2 million refugees from the conflict. It has been making an understandable case to get most of that funding.

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