Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy can take it that we have not received any request regarding taking refugees to Ireland under the programme refugee scheme. If we receive such a request we will respond appropriately, however we have not been asked diplomatically or through the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. I am not bluffing; I simply do not know whether the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform has received such a request. I imagine it has not as it would have come to our notice had that been the case. To date the Government has not, to my knowledge, received a request in this regard.

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