Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Wallace tabled this question in the aftermath of a conversation he had with the Minister in regard to what specifically we might be able to do to help unaccompanied minors following our trip to Calais and Dunkirk. The Minister informed Deputy Wallace that he would contact the UN High Commission for Refugees to find out if we could take any initiatives in that regard.

The British Government, not known to be particularly radical in the midst of the Brexit debate in which there was a lot of anti-immigrant scaremongering, managed during that time to get through the so-called Dubs amendment to its immigration Bill, which will allow between 1,000 and 3,000 unaccompanied minors to be settled there. What has the Minister done in terms of going to Greece, Calais and Dunkirk to seek the putting in place of a process whereby humanitarian visas could be exercised for unaccompanied minors there?

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