Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a question arising out of what the Minister said. He reported the 13,600 applications to the International Protection Office and there is additional funding, which includes €9 million for the appeals tribunal. Obviously, there are other programmes and I welcome the announcement today about the golden visa programme being shut down. On a breakdown of the figures on where people are coming from, a large number come from Georgia. I think it was 2,300 out of the 13,000, according to a reply to a parliamentary question last year. Does the Department meet the ambassadors from some of these countries? What discussions take place about visa programmes? Perhaps the Minister has not had the chance to get his head around that yet and he may come back to me at a later stage.