Ireland has taken in 1,244 refugees to date from countries such as Syria since the programme was announced in 2015.
There are two separate schemes under which refugees come to Ireland.
Under what is known as the resettlement programme, the Government has committed to taking in 1,040 people from Lebanon.
In total, 785 people have arrived so far and the Government says the remaining 255 will arrive by the end of the year.
The relocation programme takes in people from refugee camps in Greece and Italy.
The Government has committed to taking in 2,622 asylum seekers under this scheme: 1,089 people from Greece, 623 from Italy and a decision about where a further 910 people will come from has not been made.
Only 459 people have arrived under this scheme so far and they have all come from Greece.
The department said it will meet its target of 1,089 by the end of this year.
Out of the 623 refugees due in Ireland from Italy, none have yet arrived due to security issues in Italy.
Irish authorities want to send gardaí [state policemen] to Italy to carry out thorough security checks and do interviews with people planning on coming to Ireland. However, Italian authorities have not allowed this to happen.
A progress report by the European Commission published last week did show positive signs that the Italian authorities were open to putting arrangements in place after bilateral agreements were reached with other countries.
The report also called on Ireland to urgently increase capacity in reception centres, where people stay when they first arrive in Ireland, to meet targets by September.
The Department of Justice has said these centres have been operating at full capacity for a number of weeks, but that some people had moved into homes in the community recently which has freed up some space.
It said new people would be arriving from Greece later this month. via RTE.ie
What you didn’t know was the Irish government cancelled taking theses refugees due to the UK leaving the EU, factors which played in cancelling it was due to terriorists attacks in London, another factor mention was refugees would try to cross the border into Northen Ireland, which the British would make a hard border between the two countries.
Leo Varadkar insists refugees who refuse to accept Irish culture should not be welcome
Leo Varadkar has said refugees who refuse to accept Irish culture after moving here should not be welcome.
The minister, who is half-Indian, stressed he does support migrants coming to Ireland, but admitted there are “enormous” cultural differences.
The Fine Gael TD was speaking after a series of horrific sexual assaults and rapes on women in the Germany city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve.
He described the attacks as “shocking and terrifying”.
Minister Varadkar said yesterday: “I don’t think it’s something we can turn a blind eye to or pretend it doesn’t exist. It’s also something that needs to be controlled. We need to accept and understand cultures are different.
“People will come to Ireland to work but will actually look down on our culture and look down on our freedoms and liberalisms and think they’re wrong.
“That’s why we need to make sure people who come to Ireland actually accept our culture and are properly integrated to it and people who can’t accept our culture and our standards and our freedoms well then they shouldn’t be welcome here.
Politicians from immigrant backgrounds are often racists: it’s their way to “prove” that they are not really immigrants. Nobody should pay any attention to politicians with their own personal agendas, as opposed to solving the problems of their country. Greece has plenty like that, too.