O'Gorman against splitting department to cope with Ukraine refugee crisis

'There are people in every aspect of life who have significant workloads - you just get on with it'

28/11/2022

The Children's Minister is strongly opposed to any "hiving off" of responsibilities from his department but wants to see a junior minister appointed to deal with the Ukrainian response.

Roderic O'Gorman has also revealed that Health Minister Stephen Donnelly approached him to provide advice on how to deal with a sudden crisis having dealt with the Covid pandemic.