Written answers

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Asylum Seekers

Photo of Seán CanneySeán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

1219. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Government will immediately relocate refugees and asylum seekers from the horrific, dehumanizing Moira refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece in which they are trapped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18267/21]

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

Officials from Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) are working with colleagues from Tusla and An Garda Síochána to arrange a joint mission to Greece in order to arrange the relocation of families and Unaccompanied Minors from Lesvos. It is expected that this relocation will take place very shortly.

Relocation from Greece is being organised as an exceptional humanitarian gesture alongside the government commitment to receive 2,900 refugees during the period 2020 -2023.

All missions and arrivals are being planned in the context of public health restrictions and Covid19 protocols.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.