Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Ukrainian Crisis: Discussion

Mr. Pat Carey:

One of the lessons I notice, stepping further back from the front line than Mr. O'Dwyer, is that it is imperative that refugees feel they have ownership of what is happening and that they are not moved at short notice or to someplace that is patently unsuitable to their needs and so on. There are a number of very interesting projects emerging in different parts of the country, which I think will prove to be templates. I certainly recommend that communities engaged in capacity building, as we call it, throughout the country include the Ukrainian community and, indeed, the Syrian community, the Afghan community and so on in order, as Mr. O'Dwyer said, that there is real evidence of progression in what is happening.