Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Supporting the Irish Community: London Irish Centre
3:05 pm
Mr. Gary Dunne:
Our role has been central. Professor Liam Kennedy from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School came to visit our senior management team and I met him with David and Jenny, our director of welfare. Our initial meeting related more to older emigrants from the 1950s and 1960s wave. I presume most members know that related to the ten-year review of the emigrant support programme and looking to future needs.
This week we gathered a group of young migrants as a focus group for Professor Kennedy to meet. The meeting has not happened yet but there is a huge interest from people wishing to take part. The meeting should happen in the coming weeks. He was very pleased that we had access to that demographic.