Minister for Integration, John Curran, T.D

., launches the website of his Office.Minister John Curran, T.D., today launched the website of the Office of theMinister for Integration. The address of the website is www.integration.ie.The website will highlight the work of the Office and inform migrants andinterested stakeholders of developments in integration and diversitymanagement taking place at a national and international level. It will alsoprovide information on European and national funding streams managed by theOffice, provide links to relevant national and international websites andbe a key source of information for migrants.The Minister stated “This website will be of interest to a wide range ofstakeholders. It will inform migrants about how they can access keyservices such as education, housing and learning English as well asproviding links to multilingual resources which have been developed by arange of service providers specifically for migrants.”He continued “The OMI website will also host an information portal onmigrants and education developed by the Department of Education andScience. This portal will contain links to information on the Irisheducation system, links to resources available for intercultural education,and links to organisations and institutions (in Ireland and abroad)conducting educational research on migration. It will be of interest toall sectors of education from pre-school to higher education and willprovide information for policy makers, parents, teachers, researchers andothers interested in migrants and their education in Ireland. This materialwill also be available on the website of the Department of Education andScience.”Lastly, the Minister referred to the Annual Report of the FundamentalRights Agency which was reported widely in the national newspapers thismorning. This report drew attention to trends in reported incidents ofracism in the period from 2000 to 2007. The figures in the report showed anincrease in racist incidents from 72 in 2000 to 224 in 2007 in Ireland. TheMinister commented "Any racist attack is to be deplored but what the reportdoes not make clear is that these figures must be seen against a backdropof a phenomenal and unprecedented increase in the non Irish nationalpopulation from 224,000 in 2002 to 420,000 in 2006 (i.e an 87% increase ina period of four years) and I am glad that the most recent figuresavailable show that the incidence of recorded racist crime fell by 21% to180 reported incidents in 2008 when the estimated number of non Irishnationals (aged 15 years and over ) was 476,100 (CSO QNHS Q.4 2008)."Ends.The launch of the website of the Office of the Minister for Integrationcoincides with the recent launch of the European Web Site on Integration bythe European Commission. This website has a documentary library, “bestpractice” content, country information on integration of Third CountryNationals from across Europe, and will build an online community ofintegration practitioners. The site can be accessed at www.integration.eu.**********************************************************************************The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. It is the policy of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Agencies and Offices using its IT services to disallow the sending of offensive material.Should you consider that the material contained in this message is offensive you should contact the sender immediately and also mailminder[at]justice.ie.Is le haghaidh an duine nó an eintitis ar a bhfuil sí dírithe, agus le haghaidh an duine nó an eintitis sin amháin, a bheartaítear an fhaisnéis a tarchuireadh agus féadfaidh sé go bhfuil ábhar faoi rún agus/nó faoi phribhléid inti. Toirmisctear aon athbhreithniú, atarchur nó leathadh a dhéanamh ar an bhfaisnéis seo, aon úsáid eile a bhaint aisti nó aon ghníomh a dhéanamh ar a hiontaoibh, ag daoine nó ag eintitis seachas an faighteoir beartaithe. Má fuair tú é seo trí dhearmad, téigh i dteagmháil leis an seoltóir, le do thoil, agus scrios an t-ábhar as aon ríomhaire. Is é beartas na Roinne Dlí agus Cirt, Comhionannais agus Athchóirithe Dlí, agus na nOifígí agus na nGníomhaireachtaí a úsáideann seirbhísí TF na Roinne, seoladh ábhair cholúil a dhícheadú.Más rud é go measann tú gur ábhar colúil atá san ábhar atá sa teachtaireacht seo is ceart duit dul i dteagmháil leis an seoltóir láithreach agus le mailminder[ag]justice.ie chomh maith. ***********************************************************************************