Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 22 November 2017, the names of the ten local authorities which have a migrant integration policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50651/17]

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I would draw the Deputy’s attention to my response to question number 136 of 22 November 2017. I have no responsibility in relation to the actions of local authorities. However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have sought the relevant information from the Local Government Management Agency. The names of the ten local authorities which have published a migrant integration policy are as follows:

Carlow County Council

Dublin City Council

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

Galway County Council

Kerry County Council

Kildare County Council

Kilkenny County Council

Limerick City and County Council

Longford County Council

South Dublin County Council.

Development of Local Authorities' integration strategies will be undertaken within the framework of the National Strategy. Action 52 of the Migrant Integration Strategy - A Blueprint for the future, which was published on 7 February 2017, provides for the updating of integration strategies by local authorities over the lifetime of the Strategy i.e. from 2017 to 2020.

A Monitoring and Co-ordination Committee has been established to support the process of implementing the Migrant Integration Strategy. The Committee, which comprises representatives of relevant Government Departments, State Agencies and the NGO sector, met for the second time in October 2017 and is due to meet again in January 2018. Progress on the implementation of the actions in the Strategy will be reviewed at the end of 2018 and a report prepared for Government.