Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This situation is delicate and emotive and it needs to be dealt with. The people out there are yearning for information and are not getting it. I want the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to tell me how many people from his Department are on the public engagement team. I believe it is very few. When will they have joined-up thinking and put services in place? I demand that he meets the people in Roscrea. He will not find a far-right person there. These are decent people who have been demonised and blackguarded. Imagine taking away their hotel, the only social outlet they had left in the town. That town has already taken in 80% of the IPAS people in County Tipperary. Hundreds of people are working in that town in factories and everything else. They have all integrated and will continue to do so. This is no way to deal with people. I ask the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to meet a deputation of the good people of Roscrea.

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