Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will be meeting with officials from the Department of the Taoiseach in the next week to firm up and finalise the plan. The message that will be communicated will be similar to what we consistently communicate in terms of outlining the wider context of what has happened, underlining our international responsibilities and the situations people face, and recognising what communities have done. It is important we recognise that the dominant story has been one of welcome. I held an event in Croke Park two weeks ago, where community organisations from every county in the country came together to share their learning and to build a national movement of welcome. That has been the broader and wider story. That is one key way of keeping those other messages out. We must support communities that want to welcome people and build our capacity to do that. Part of that is giving them information in advance when we are able to do that.

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