Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Jobless Households: NESC, ICTU and INOU

1:10 pm

Senator Marie Louise O'Donnell:

The Government did very well in ensuring that migrants were not ghettoised when they arrived. Geography played a key role in this regard as the immigrant population is not centred on the larger cities because migrants went to live all over the country. One of the reasons for the problem being experienced in other countries was geographical.