Specialised unit to be put in place to meet refugees from Ukraine in Ireland

Women and children, fleeing from Ukraine, arrive on the platform of the train station in Przemysl, Poland, after disembarking from a bus which traveled from the border, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Picture: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman has said that a specialised unit will shortly be put in place to meet refugees from Ukraine as they arrive at airports and ports in Ireland.

It comes as around 2,500 Irish people have pledged to take in Ukrainian refugees as the numbers fleeing the country topped 1.7m in what has been described as the biggest humanitarian response in Irish history.