Calls for refugee response director has ‘fallen on deaf ears’, committee told

Edel McGinley, Director of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, addresses an Oireachtas committee on Tuesday (PA)

A national lead in charge of housing refugees and asylum seekers is needed in Ireland, a committee has head.

The Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth was urged to push this issue as a matter of priority, having been told “a different approach” was needed on migration.