It comes after their Prime Minister David Cameron said that Britain will take in 20-thousand refugees but that they would not sign up to an EU quota system – where refugees would be shared out across the European Union.
Here at home, Tánaiste Joan Burton says a figure of 5-thousand refugees for Ireland is 'in the mix' and that people would enter Ireland under a refugee programme rather than through the Direct Provision system.
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Jerry O'Connor from the Immigrant Council of Ireland says this is welcome news but more emphasis needs to be put on what happens once people arrive on our shores.
