Junior minister: Communicating with locals difficult when migrants on streets

Joe O’Brien TD, Minister of State for Community Development and Charities, during a press conference announcing the Social Protection Budget at Government Buildings in Dublin. Picture date: Tuesday September 27, 2022.

The junior minister for integration has said that communicating with locals ahead of time is difficult when hundreds of asylum seekers are sleeping on the streets.

Joe O’Brien, the Minister of State with responsibility for integration at the Department of Children, said that a national strategy is to be rolled out that he hopes will help improve communicating “a coherent message”.