All this has exploded on our doorstep. The fact is that the poor and vulnerable will be the ones that will suffer most globally and locally in this pandemic - Fr Paddy Byrne.

Service will ensure that unaccompanied children referred by their social workers and aftercare workers are matched with pro bono legal help.

“This is yet another example of the many ‘accidental cruelties’ of the direct provision system. Nobody means to do harm and everybody does their job, sort of, but things seem to happen to persons in direct provision that don’t happen to other people because it’s a system without a heart.”

Asylum seekers now have the option to leave Direct Provision centres if they wish and look for their own accommodation. Up to 3,000 people will be eligible to take up temporary or permanent jobs.

Last year the Government was ordered by the highest court in Ireland, to allow asylum seekers into the labour market.

Former RTE special correspondent will speak in Kerry about his experience of visiting missionary projects in the Philippines and Korea.