Victims should be allowed settle here, says FG

VICTIMS of the Haitian earthquake should be allowed to re-settle in Ireland, Fine Gael yesterday urged.

The party’s overseas aid spokesman Billy Timmins said a glut of empty properties across the country could be used to house survivors of the disaster that is estimated to have left 200,000 people dead and 3 million displaced in the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation.

“If it could alleviate the plight of Haitians, we should consider taking refugees from Haiti. God knows, we have enough empty residences throughout the country that could house people,” he said as the Dáil probed the emergency response to the earthquake.