International Protection
Dail Éireann — 2022-07-07
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

I thank the Deputy for his response. I too had the opportunity to travel to that region in November of last year. I visited Jordan and the Al Za'atari refugee camp and I was very impressed by the generosity of the Jordanian Government. It is a country of 10 million people and 2 million people of that population, or 20%, are refugees. They are provided with the same Covid-19 vaccinations and the same level of supports as are the rest of the population. It puts a great strain on the resources of a country that is not wealthy and that country certainly welcomed our support in taking a small number of refugees, which nevertheless enabled the taking of some of those requirements away from that country. The same applies to Lebanon, a country which is very much struggling right now. Both of those countries recognise the importance of this support. If I may, I will address the queries on the White Paper in my last response.

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