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IRELAND WILL ACCEPT 90 Syrian refugees this year, the government has told the United Nation’s refugee agency.
Most will be resettled from host countries in the Middle East and North African region. According to the Department of Justice, they could possibly come from over-populated camps in Lebanon and Jordan.
“This number will include provision for up to four medical cases whose medical needs can only be met through resettlement,” a statement to TheJournal.ie revealed. ”The UNHCR has begun the process of identifying medical cases for consideration by the Irish authorities.”
During 2013, 35 Syrian refugees came to Ireland from Syrian UNHCR refugee camps.
That number included one medical case, in which a family of four of Iraqi/Palestinian origin arrived in July. They have been resettled in Cork.
Eight Afghan refugee families and two single Afghan men arrived in Ireland on 7 November 2013 from Damascus, Syria. The entire group of 31 people is currently living in a reception centre while participating in a language and orientation programme.
The 31 Afghan refugees was admitted under an EU funded Preparatory Action for Emergency Resettlement.
Separately, there were 38 applications for asylum from those claiming to be from Syria in 2013. So far this year, there have been five such applications from Syrians.
In 2012, fewer than 10 Syrians had applied for refugee status in Ireland.
Earlier this week, the UK agreed to take up to 500 refugees after a battle with the UNHCR for not signing on to its ‘quota’ programme.
The deal between the government and the UN will see Britain take in some of the most vulnerable and traumatised victims, including women, children and sexual assault survivors.
A number of agencies and charities have been critical of the international community’s lack of response to the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria and its surrounding countries.
Currently, there are 2,386,087 Syrian refugees, with millions more displaced internally. The UNHCR has called on more countries to establish refugee resettlement programmes.
Germany has offered more than 10,000 places to Syrian refugees, the most of any country.
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RTE to hand out two abacus
.. and 6 Pencils (HB with Integrated rubber)
RTÉ deserve a few boots. This isn’t one of them however.
License increase first though. About €350 extra each should cover the €150 million consultancy fees in to what type of abacus. Wood or Plastic.
11 year old looks at this calculator-like device, then looks at his Xbox 360, then at this calculator-like device, then at his IPad….. 11 year doesn’t look at his calculator-like device ever again!
They would be covered in lead paint and cost 52 million squillion along with a committee to oversee this failure. Just don’t lick the paint
BBC hands out free coding devices to help children with programming and give them a leg up in future science.
RTE reminds children everyday at 6 that a primitive god needs his daily attendance.
“primitive” – there are modern ones I ought to know about?
There’s thousands of gods, all it takes is some imagination.
I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a relatively recent deity.
Step up to the plate RTE
Would you be willing to pay extra for your TV licence. You don’t think the overpaid Dobsons & Turbridys of this world are going to take a pay cut now do you.
Why is it their role to do this? If theres benefit schools should be the ones to recieve the funding to provide it. I dont immediately see that the national broadcaster and TV license money should be funding these resources as opposed to the Education Department unless as a rather quirky publicity stunt. If this is assessed as beneficial and worthwhile simply give the Department the extra budget. The BBC is fantastic but no need to ape their every move.
Someone has to pay for the new wine cellar
Fair play to BBC
If rte handed these out they would also implement the household coding device license fee
In a few years we will discover they were ‘accidentally’ collecting data on every home with one of these devices.
Maybe if they didn’t dumb down the curriculum the kids wouldn’t be idiots over there
Not to mention dumbing down the BBC itself.
The UK has consistently outperformed Ireland every year since records on education index. This kind of programme will ensure that this continues while the department of education and rte still make a mess of getting basic internet and IT to schools. Don’t mock our neighbours as a nation of UKIP following troglodytes when we are playing catchup.
I didn’t understand any of that.
They are going to give out little yokes to the kids to play with so they can get jobs doing same when they are big. Because the mines and shipyards are gone and the call centres are in Asia.
God damn I always hoped this age of coding, computers, AI etc would come after my time.
Well if it did you wouldn’t be able to make that comment just there, a touch ironic that eh
No it’s not ironic. You kind of misunderstood my point. I mean a world where everything is about computers, technology etc, which is the age we are about to enter/just entering. We’ve had commenting abilities on the internet for years.
You do realize that your commenting is enabled by coding and computers, – and lots of it? Probaby millions of lines of code, since you use Twitter’s oauth login to enable the post. Given that you are using our Twitter account to post, – its almost certain that some AI came into it too, for Spam and Web security filtering, especially since you sent your comment also to Twitter.
I would say it is in fact ironic by definition, since code,computers and probably AI enabled your comment.
Alan R
Can you read?
I am nit computer literate, as many pensioners/disabled, especially rurals are not.
No lessons available but an hour a couple of times per week and some buses and we could rectify this gradually.
BBC give out coders. Rte give out reminders on behalf of Irish water to sign up or else you will be reduced to a trickle and fined and a lein put against your property.
Have we not given up on rte yet?, apart from the odd decent thing like Notoriuos or L/H wouldn’t go near it!
Don’t understand why you need a device to plug into a computer to start coding. You can write code in any simple text editor.
That confused me also.
The point is for this thing to be a visual incentive to code rather than directly aid coding. It’s a wearable device with scrolling text, flashing lights and other things that make it very obvious what your coding changes are doing. I guess the idea is changing a sequence of lights or flashing your favourite sports team across a screen is more understandable and exciting for learning the impact of code than a hello world screen.
I’m not convinced. If someone isn’t impressed into coding by seeing games, the internet and everything else related then I doubt that piece of crap will inspire them, flashing lights or not.
It apparently needs to be plugged into a ‘real’ computer anyway so it’s redundant.
From the scant information provided in the article it seems to be a poor attempt to make it appear that the British government are doing something to improve their education system when all they are really doing is wasting money by handing out a bit of tat.
Combined with the fact that the average punter never has had and never will have the need or interest to program anything it looks almost totally useless.
Coding to be used in wars nice one lads
Can’t top that RTE, might as well close down now and save us that licence fee.
“Mein Gott! Der Tommy Trojan und der Englander fischingßcam!”
“Take that Fritz. His firewall has come unstuck chaps. Hurrah for our boys!”
Permission to shout “Bravo” at an annoyingly loud volume, sir.
TALLY HO!
Only a Winston could get away with that…lol +1
Fairly pointless. What eleven year old in Britain hasn’t already got at least one device that they can code on now if they felt like it?
And if RTE did do something like this everyone on here would be saying “waste of money” “typical RTE” “They should spend money on decent programming first” blah blah blah. RTE can never be right regardless in the eyes of the “this country is sh!te” brigade that usually comment on here.
There’s enough gadgets in the class rooms, alot of the kids can’t count without a calculator
Oh to have a broadcaster where folk dont pay a licence fee for the angelus
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