Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government refers to the migrant crisis in the Middle East and taking an approach with human rights at its core. I want to raise a specific case with the Taoiseach the details of which I am happy to send to him. It is a man who is an Irish citizen. He was born in Iraq. He fled Mosul in Iraq, after ISIS had taken over and after they murdered his father and other close family members for refusing to co-operate. He is an Irish citizen in Ireland at this stage but his mother is effectively in legal limbo in Turkey with no documents and is faced with going back to Iraq. In brief, the mother of an Irish citizen whose husband was murdered by ISIS is faced with being forced back to Iraq and we are asking the Government to intervene on a humanitarian basis to allow her to be reunified with her son.

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