Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the recent announcement of deportations of Syrian and other asylum seekers from Denmark to detention centres outside the EU with his Danish counterpart, the Danish Ambassador or within the EU institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21312/21]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Last week, the Danish authorities provided an update to EU Ambassadors to Denmark, including Ireland’s Ambassador, on the current situation in the context of migration policy and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. I understand that the decisions referred to by the media regarding Syrian refugees were made by an Independent Appeals Board in Denmark which is part of the independent court structures. The Head of this Board published an explanation of these decisions on the Board’s website indicating that they were based on assessment from international sources and objective criteria. We are not aware of any deportations of Syrian asylum seekers following these decisions. We will monitor the situation closely.