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JUSTICE MINISTER FRANCES Fitzgerald today announced that Ireland had given 111 Syrians permission to live and work in the country since March.
Under the Syrian Humanitarian Admissions Programme (SHAP) introduced by then Minister Alan Shatter, Syrians already resident in Ireland could apply for vulnerable family members – many fleeing civil war – to join them here.
According to a statement this afternoon, those admitted are “entitled to work, establish a business, or invest in the State,” and that a condition of their admission is that they don’t become “a burden on the State.”
The SHAP scheme is in addition to a resettlement project overseen by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, which has seen a total of 90 Syrian nationals already settling in Ireland so far this year.
While 111 have been granted admission under SHAP, 197 out of 308 applicants have had their petitions rejected.
Sue Conlon, CEO of the Irish Refugee Council, told TheJournal.ie that while she welcome today’s announcement, the government must do more.
There is a need for greater solidarity with not only Syrian refugees, but also countries close to Syria which are bearing the greater burden.
And, given that the UN World Food programme has run out of money to feed and accommodate Syrian refugees, the government could do more to provide support for those abroad.
Minister Fitzgerald explained the mechanism of the resettlement programme, calling it “humane and reasonable.”
The individual family circumstances of each family were considered, in a humane and reasonable way, relying on UNHCR guidelines in granting the applications.
The programme is in addition to other avenues whereby Syrian nationals might lawfully enter the State, such as family reunification for the family members of refugees…
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Why didn’t they test it on themselves?
@Derek o keeffe: Because like most clinical trials this one was carried out on mice to gauge reactions/side effects..
Without such trials the average human life expectancy would still be somewhere between 35/55 and we wouldn’t have the vast majority of the current life saving Cancer and AIDS treatments to mention just two…
@Derek o keeffe: a better question is why they didn’t test it on you.
Cannabis works on pain as well oh thats right big pharmaceuticals cant profit off that though.Cannabis is one of the biggest break throughs in medicine but our media seem to ignore it.
Can you “milk” the fish for venom, package it and sell it to people? Asking for a friend.
‘The Fang Blennies’….weren’t they a pop group back in the 80′s?
Is the venom addictive like current opioids? If so what’s the big deal?
Stooooooory bud!!! Ya got any of them fishes the ones with da gear man for me girlfriend like it’s her beerday tomorra!! On tick of course bud scratcher end of the week bud… (over heard in pet shop in Dublin city centre )
What’s the point. Patients still can’t get the medicinal cannabis that could help them.
It’s not IF we lose the Great Barrier Reef it’s WHEN. Better stock up on tanks pumps and protein skimmers all of which will require a lot of fossil fuel generated electricity to run if we want to keep the blenny inter alia.
Mind it’s probably moot given the mindless approach of governments and society to date towards natural painkillers and cancer killing substances. If it actually delivers a useful result he blenny will probably be banned by law.
Do they feel pain themselves I wonder?
I foresee growth in aquarium stockist shops
Were the mice drugged or did they just drown?
Does this come in the form of fish fingers?
Big Bryan Fry experimenting with Small Blenny Fry. The outcome a numbing experience.
You can get bags of it down the quays already
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The happiest fish going lol.
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