Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Migrant Crisis: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Michael Kirrane:

The first thing to say is that there has been a huge groundswell of support and pledges from the public generally, with offers of help. We intend to harness all of those and, as I mentioned earlier, the Red Cross has been given the lead task to gather all of those in a structured manner and look at where accommodation has been offered, and where other services have been offered. A whole range of offers have been made.