It is “heartening to see that priority will be given to unaccompanied minors and that family reunification will be supported” - Eamonn Meehan.

Archbishop of Dublin calls for a generous response to those caught up in the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War.

Children are “uniquely vulnerable to the lifelong consequences of growing up in such an institutionalised environment”.

“It is not reasonable that the [asylum] process should go on for years” Bishop Doran admonishes Government.