International Protection

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Questions (334)

Cian O'Callaghan

Question:

334. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the languages in which the resources provided by the International Protection Accommodation Services are available in; and if all of the languages are widely available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18987/22]

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Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) of my Department provides material in many different languages depending on the needs of each International Protection (IP) applicant. Material in all of the languages listed below are widely available to IP applicants. These are the languages that material has been translated into so far:

-Afrikaans

-Albanian

-Arabic

-Bengali

-Burmese

-Chinese

-Czech

-Dari

-Farsi/Persian

-French

-Georgian

-Hindi

-Irish

-Kurdish

-Lithuanian

-Pashto

-Portuguese

-Punjabi

-Russian

-Shona

-Slov

-Somali

-Spanish

-Swahili

-Tigrinya

-Ukrainian

-Yoruba

-Urdu

Most recently IPAS has provided material in Ukrainian and Russian language, in response to the ongoing humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.