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Zappone welcomes arrival of 8 young people from Greek refugee camp

The children will be received into the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.

MINISTER FOR CHILDREN Katherine Zappone has welcomed the arrival of eight young people from a refugee camp in Greece. 

The young people have been separated from their families and are coming here under the International Refugee Protection Programme, which is managed by the Department for Justice. 

The children will be received into the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. 

Preparation for the transfer of the eight young people began in September 2019 when Tusla led a mission to Athens and the children were assessed, screened and approved for resettlement. 

Arrangements for the children were being processed and their arrival had been expected in late March. However, all refugee transport and resettlement programmes were temporarily suspended in mid-March due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the transfer could not be completed. 

“I am delighted that at last we can welcome these children, whose arrival here was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I am very relieved that the young people tested negative for Covid-19 and were able to travel today,” Zappone said.

The Minister added that Tusla has “developed a detailed and comprehensive plan to care for these young people in their new home, where they will quarantine”. 

“They will be received into Tusla care and will have a chance to adjust to the very difference circumstances in which they will now be living,” Zappone said. 

“I want to thank Tusla for the additional efforts made to ensure all public health advice is adhered to and that the young people, and those caring for them, are protected as they settle into their new homes,” she said.

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    Mute Shimo Tbay
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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:13 PM

    As she swans off into the sunset with her gold plated pension. A minister the was so bad they are looking a getting rid of the department.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:10 PM

    Welcome to Ireland

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:35 PM

    @Agrippa: welcome to Ireland but not in the Care Of Tusla with there track Record

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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:43 PM

    Did Greece take Zappone as part of the deal?

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    Mute Mary
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    Jun 17th 2020, 10:08 PM

    @IrishRedLFC: please day yes

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    Jun 17th 2020, 10:08 PM

    @Mary: say

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    Mute Criostoir Mac Ranghaill
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    Jun 18th 2020, 1:16 AM

    @IrishRedLFC: Great one and you could add a bus load of the headless chickens which were in political power during the recent epidemic and the past ten years

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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:05 PM

    There’s a striking lack of diversity of opinions in the comment section here. I wonder why…

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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:06 PM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: they might have deleted the racist stuff.
    I hope that’s a trend.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:13 PM

    @John Mulligan: What about the non-racist comments that are different to the approved speech?

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    Jun 18th 2020, 3:12 AM

    @John Mulligan: you hope censorship is a trend? Or is it just censorship of things that don’t suit you. You do realise that’s how authoritarianism gets a foot hold. If someone says that’s wrong it should be left up so it can be challenged otherwise you are just creating a “safe space” little echo chamber where no one engages the brain.

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    Jun 18th 2020, 3:47 AM

    @Owen O’Murchú: racism doesn’t “engage the brain”.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:13 PM

    Good to see Ireland playing our part in these sort of programs.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:19 PM

    Céad míle fáilte róimh na páistí.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:29 PM

    Welcome children… is young people a new politically correct word for children now? serious question

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:32 PM

    @Retrostan: would you describe a group that includes 17 year olds, for example, as children? Serious question.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:39 PM

    @Retrostan: does it matter? Serious question.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:56 PM

    @Richard Russell: There’s more than a hint of xenophobia in that comment.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:27 PM

    @KilkennyProud: Well they’re hardly adults now, are they? Ffs!

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:34 PM

    @KilkennyProud: correct me if im wrong but anyone under 18 is a child??

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:56 PM

    @Retrostan: And at this moment 145 people agree with his comment that 17 year olds aren’t children. Very iffy if you ask me.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 11:00 PM

    @Retrostan: they might be class as children by our law makes but their biology has matured to that of an adult I hope that this is not delete

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:25 PM

    @Nolan Spare: You realise you are referring to children, don’t you? I came as a child refugee to Ireland – so young I cannot remember. I’m glad I didn’t meet you, though I doubt you were even born then.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:26 PM

    @Earth Traveller: @Nolan Spare original comment deleted due to its nastiness.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:35 PM

    @Earth Traveller: an example of the journal’s belief in free speech

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:39 PM

    @Earth Traveller: I don’t know what Nolan spare said but deleting comment is an example of the journal believe in free speech In Ireland you can enjoy free speech as long as it is national union of journalists free speech

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:49 PM

    @Richard Russell: Read the terms of use….the same ones you agreed to when you created your profile.
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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:37 PM

    @Richard Russell: All of those immigrant children have better English than you. Jesus christ.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:24 PM

    @Mill Lane: The terms of use are listed here: https://www.thejournal.ie/terms/
    which largely adhere to the principles of free speech. Certainly, there is nothing under the terms that would justify the frequency and nature of deletions by the Journal’s content censors; maybe they should review their own rules.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:25 PM

    @Sid: There’s nothing an ignorant rscist hates more than an intelligent immigrant.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:27 PM

    @Sid: Probably better than yours too, considering you can’t write two sentences without resorting to an offensive profanity.

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    @Earth Traveller: Nothing in the Journal’s rules that state a post should be removed because of “nastiness”: https://www.thejournal.ie/terms/
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    Jun 17th 2020, 11:00 PM

    @Fintan O’flaois: I was trying to be polite when I described the comment as nasty. Here are some other appropriate adjectives: obnoxious, vile, loathsome, gross, repugnant, nauseating, outrageous.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 11:04 PM

    @Sid: English was never my best subject at school possibly because I spent seven years being taught through the medium of Irish

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    Jun 17th 2020, 11:06 PM

    @Mill Lane: I believe in free speech obviously you people in journalisms believe in book burning

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    Jun 18th 2020, 5:00 AM

    @Richard Russell: TheJournal is a privately owned site. If you don’t like the fact they remove nasty comments you’re always free to make your opinion heard elsewhere.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 9:10 PM

    Look to America and Britain. That’s where we will soon be at. And we ar not invaders war mongers slavers.

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    Jun 18th 2020, 12:15 AM

    @Brian Conway: America and Britain? You mean countries that have millions of Irish and Irish descendants? We emigrated to the four corners of the earth. Let’s not be hypocrites now Brian.

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    Mute Rose Larkin.
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    Jun 18th 2020, 2:50 AM

    Why bring them here now after what has been happening here during the past three months , what about our own children in care , the homeless families living in one room , how many more refugees can Ireland support when our own native born can’t be supported . This is just so the government can look good to the likes of the corrupt U.N..

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    Jun 18th 2020, 5:08 AM

    @Rose Larkin.: our own native born can’t be supported? What a load of tosh “The Dublin region financial report for 2018 – which covers expenditure across the four Dublin local authorities – shows that €141 million in total was spent on homelessness services in the capital last year.”

    The amount spent on homeless services in Dublin almost trebled in four years https://jrnl.ie/4636631

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    Jun 18th 2020, 3:53 PM

    @EillieEs: Homeless should be helped of course but unless we see this as firstly a mental health crisis not a homeless crisis we’ll never get anywhere.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:23 PM

    Assessed, screened, and approved for resettlement.How horrible the world has become, I hope the get people that love each one as their own.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:38 PM

    Fáilte leanaí. Go neirí an tadh libh anois.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 8:39 PM

    Welcome. May your new life be positive and happy.

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    Jun 17th 2020, 6:22 PM

    @Nolan Spare: does that even warrant a reply ?? TOOL !!!

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    Jun 18th 2020, 10:20 AM

    Are they going to live in her house I think not

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    Jun 17th 2020, 9:32 PM

    You should be on the boat out

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    Jun 17th 2020, 7:16 PM

    Mother treresa

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    Wow

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