Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Situation in Syria and the Philippines: Discussion with UNICEF Ireland

3:35 pm

Mr. Peter Power:

I agree with the Deputy that the international community needs to support Jordan because it stepped up in a huge way. Jordan decided to organise things by way of structured camps whereas Lebanon decided to do it by much more informal smaller camps. The Za'atari refugee camp, with all of its challenges and difficulties, is functioning reasonably well as a refugee camp, in so far as refugee camps are good places to live.