Extra 260 Syrian refugees coming to Ireland under resettlement plan

The Government has announced plans to resettle an extra 260 refugees from Lebanon who have been displaced by the Syrian conflict.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald revealed plans yesterday to send a selection team to Lebanon within weeks to select the additional refugees, who are due to arrive in spring 2017.

The decision to increase the number of refugees being accepted in Ireland under the resettlement strand of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) is a direct result of the slower than anticipated arrival of asylum seekers from Greece and Italy because of administrative issues on the ground there, she said.