Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Howlin knows this well too. As I imagine Deputy Bacik knows, when people present at the International Protection Office, very experienced staff, who have done incredible work in a very intense environment, carry out interviews and the likes, and garner, not anecdotes, but data and information on how people have come to our country. They are telling Government and we are telling the Deputies opposite that the overwhelming majority of people now presenting in that office have come from the UK or down from Northern Ireland. Every week when I come into this House, I hear that we would like an honest and open debate about migration. Well, there it is; that is the honest and open reality.

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