Mr. Michael Kirrane:

The Department and the previous Minister for Justice and Equality ran a programme in respect of the Syrian humanitarian reunification programme and from that a total of 114 persons have been granted family reunification and have come to Ireland under that programme. The selection of people from this programme and the series of programmes is decided at EU level and by the European Asylum Support Office, EASO, and the countries involved. They will come predominantly from Greece and Italy. There are discussions going on at the moment as to how that selection will be made. There were various meetings last week and this week to work out the details.