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Reception and Integration Agency
Block C, The Ardilaun Centre, St Stephen’s Green West, Dublin 2
Tel: (01) 418 3200 Lo-call: 1890 777 727, 9.30am – 5.30pm Mon to Fri
Fax: (01) 418 3221
Email: info@justice.ie Web: www.ria.gov.ie
Responsibilities: planning and co-ordinating the provision of services to
asylum seekers and refugees; the accommodation of asylum seekers through
direct provision; operation of the selection and resettlement of programme
refugees; monitoring, promoting and facilitating effective integration
initiatives in relation to all immigrants; co-ordinating and developing
integration policy. The Integration Unit is at the Office of the Minister for
Integration – see separate entry.
Recovery International
Room 85, Bridge House, Cherry Orchard Hospital, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10
Tel: (01) 626 0775, 8.00am – 4.00pm Mon to Fri Fax: (01) 626 4799
Email: info@recovery-inc-ireland.ie Web: www.recovery-inc-ireland.ie
Offers a self-help mental health programme for people suffering with
anxiety, phobias, depression or nervous symptoms. At 32 locations, weekly
meetings take place where techniques can be learned to control these
symptoms and fears. For those who have been hospitalised, there is also an
aftercare programme helping to prevent relapses.
Publications: Recovery Reporter; newsletter.
Referendum Commission
18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2
Tel: (01) 639 5695 Fax: (01) 639 5674
Email: refcom@ombudsman.gov.ie Web: www.refcom.ie
Independent body established at the discretion of the Minister for the
Environment, Heritage and Local Government whenever a referendum is to
be held. Its role is to explain the subject matter of referendum proposals,
to promote public awareness of the referendum and to encourage the
electorate to vote at the poll. Within six months of completing its functions
for a referendum, the commission furnishes a report to the Minister and
then dissolves one month later.
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