FORTY-FIVE Syrian and Iraqi refugees will arrive in Kerry in December.
The refugees, comprising of 11 families, are ready to be housed in Tralee and Killarney.
It is expected that 17 more families totaling 70 people will arrive in January and February 2016 as part of the the national resettlement programme for refugees.
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Kerry County Council is currently working with a number of groups and meeting fortnightly to plan for the arrival of the refugee families. The arrival of refugees is not expected impact too much on the housing list according Kerry County Council.
This year about 760,000 refugees have already crossed the Mediterranean. The UN are expecting that a further 600,000 will cross between November and January.
Honestly now i do feel sorry for them but do ye know where they are going to house them, there are people on the housing list for years who really need houses where will they go? Just another way for the Irish government to try and look good in the world when we already have problems with too many people getting money from the government no jobs no houses yet they keep our gates opened and no doubt to pay for our governments generosity to house all these people it will be the working class not the fat cats in this corrupt country we live in who make these massive decisions. We already have families living here in tralee irish and foreign families over crowded and apparently there’s no housing yet where are these 12 families going?
Well said Michael, it’s a disaster in London, and everywhere else. We also are being made to highly respect their religious culture, soon we’ll have sharia law
Sharia law? A little exaggeration that isn’t it? Twelve houses isn’t going to solve Ireland’s housing crisis but it does, however, give a roof over the heads of a few families that have been uprooted from their homes, families and regular lives like yours and mine and have nothing left whatsoever.
The cause and effect. The cause is America and allies funding, supplying arms, and bombing and using drones on countries far from their shores, thus causing this refugee problem. I would like to see the bills for housing, feeding, schooling, and eventually repatriating these poor desolate people being paid by those that caused their plight in the first instance.
THE TIME TO HELP PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE THE PERFECT TIME, BUT IF WE HAVE ANY COMPASSION IN US WE MUST HELP THE PEOPLE OF SYRIA.THERE COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BY BOMBS FROM RUSSIA,AMERICA EUROPE AND ISIS.22 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MISPLACED,THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DIASTER FOR SO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE AND SMALL CHILDREN.WE ARE ALL PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD AND WE ALL NEED TO HELP EACH OTHER.