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Sam Boal

Government wants 1% of civil service to be made up of immigrants in new integration strategy

Other measures include English language training programmes and community grants.

A WIDE-RANGE of measures are being introduced to make Ireland a more welcoming place to migrants, it has been announced.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald, along with Integration Minister David Stanton, unveiled the the framework for Government action on migrant integration from 2017 until 2020.

Under the plans, a number of measures will be introduced, including:

  • A 1% target for the employment of migrants and people from minority ethnic communities in the civil service.
  • Training programmes for unemployed migrants with poor English proficiency.
  • Initiatives to encourage the business sector to play a role in promoting integration.
  • €500k will be made available in 2017 to local community-based groups to promote integration in their area.

In most cases, civil service employment is not open to non-EEA nationals. Fitzgerald feels this issue is important in terms of beginning the process of “making the civil service representative of the broader population”.

Speaking about the strategy, Tánasite Fitzgerald said: “Ireland is increasingly diverse. Integration has to become part of our DNA so that its benefits can be felt by migrants, refugees and by society as a whole.

“The Migrant Integration Strategy provides a framework for action on integration for the next four years.”

CEO of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, Brian Killoran, welcomed the new strategy, saying that he was happy that part of it was focussed on how to report abuses within employment.

He said: “Also positive is the recognition of the need to deliver intercultural awareness training for all frontline staff in the public sector; improve access to appropriately qualified interpreters and translators where needed, especially in healthcare settings and focus on the employment needs of particularly vulnerable migrant communities.

“The Immigrant Council also welcomed the Government commitment to provide funding for local community integration activities and initiatives, as well as the commitment to resource NGOs and other working with migrant communities.”

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    Dec 16th 2013, 7:28 AM

    The Chinese need to have a word with young Kim before he does something stupid & starts a war that nobody wants.

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    Dec 16th 2013, 10:16 AM

    On November 3rd, the marxist state carried out 80 public executions in seven cities for crimes ranging from the distribution of pornography and foreign merchandise to possession of a Christian bible. It has been reported that children witnessed executions in at least one case.

    According to Amnesty International North Korea executed 30 people in 2011 and 6 last year. At least 100 have been executed this year. This would appear to show that North Korea’s authorities has recently acquired a blood-lust.

    The reasons for the marked increase in rates of executions are not clear, but according to JoongAng Ilbo (the South Korean newspaper that originally reported the story) the show-piece executions were “an extreme measure by the central government to stamp out public unrest or capitalistic zeal accompanying its development projects.”

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    Dec 16th 2013, 12:44 PM

    Might not do any good with this lunatic Thomas. Uncle Jang was Beijing’s man in the Government. I think he actually believes his own propaganda that NK doesn’t need anyone.

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    Dec 16th 2013, 7:47 AM

    An interesting approach to weeding out corruption in government.
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    Dec 16th 2013, 11:14 AM

    The army wouldn’t have enough bullets to shoot the amount of corrupt greedy parish pump dictators and half arsed teachers who infest the political system in Ireland. Anyway you get what you vote for.

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    Dec 16th 2013, 8:13 AM

    Old Moores Almanac says that a certain short fat arrogant little dictator will be gone by mid 2014.
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    Dec 16th 2013, 9:59 AM

    I thought Rabbitte was on his way to Europe?

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    Dec 16th 2013, 7:30 AM

    I think Kim got the right idea…….. He knows how to keep his cabinet on their toes…………or on their backs

    If Enda was more like him our no2 would be shaking in his boots

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    Dec 16th 2013, 12:38 PM

    Ah don’t worry Enda’s got his report cards….

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    Dec 16th 2013, 9:22 AM

    “Pyongyang labelled him a drug-addicted womaniser who frequented foreign casinos with embezzled state funds.”

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    Dec 16th 2013, 8:39 AM

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    Dec 16th 2013, 7:44 AM

    Just let them get on with it and keep sending the food parcels.

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    Dec 16th 2013, 11:24 AM

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    Dec 16th 2013, 2:18 PM

    Oh yes the report card no one has seen or heard of since … Bad minister , I’m going to give you 100 lashes and you can write out the constitution 100 times .

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