IRELAND'S precarious economic situation appears to be discouraging asylum-seekers from seeking refuge in this country, latest statistics have show.
Quarterly figures from the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) show 790 would-be refugees have arrived so far this year. Based on those figures, the total expected this year will be in the region of 3,160, a fall of more than 600 from the 3,807 who arrived last year.
The decline has been in the order of 22%, backing up claims made by former Minister for Justice Michael McDowell that many applicants were in fact "economic migrants".
http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/apr/19/recession-blamed-on-drop-in-numbers-of-asylum-seek/
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Genuine refugees seek refuge in the first country the get to. Our refugees seen to travel on a site-seeing tour of Europe before the arrive in Ireland.
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