It's understood the government may not sign off on a fixed number of refugees to accept today, but reports this morning say the coalition will take in a total of almost 3-thousand people.
According to the Irish Times, Ireland will take in 2,400 refugees from the 160-thousand being resettled across Europe – that's on top of the 500 already agreed.
It comes as the CEO of Concern says it is “irresponsible” to fund the refugee crisis response from existing aid budgets.
Dominic MacSorley says the funding shortfall for the UN's Syria Appeal is “unacceptable and inhumane”.
He's cautioning against the use of aid budgets to fund the refugee crisis in Europe.
