27 Iúil 2016, 14:49
27 July 2016
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence will tomorrow meet to discuss migration, in advance of the United Nations Summit on Refugees and Migrants which is being co-facilitated by Ireland and Jordan on 19 September. Presenting to the Committee will be the Chief Executive Officer of Oxfam Ireland, Mr. Jim Clarken, and the Chief Executive Officer of Dóchas, Ms. Suzanne Keatinge.
The meeting will commence at 11.00 am in Committee Room 1, Thursday, 28 July 2016.
Committee Chairman, Brendan Smith TD, said “This high level meeting is an important global summit that allows nations to convene, with the aim of formulating a unified response to this unforeseen large scale movement of refugees and migrants.”
“We look forward to hearing the views of Oxfam Ireland and those NGOs represented by Dóchas on the ways in which the world can best deal with the challenges of migration, including the root causes of displacement, counteracting xenophobia and racism, and on how to introduce a structured, regularised and orderly migration process to alleviate the plight of refugees and migrants”.
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