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European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...years because if the atmosphere, anger, tension and violence I have witnessed over the past months is anything to go by, we are facing a very dark chapter in Irish politics. While it is completely legitimate to raise issues about the immigration system and to talk about a rules-based system, it is not legitimate to dehumanise those who come here seeking sanctuary, it is not legitimate to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...guess, there are already bad actors in this space who are trying to give an interpretation of what this migration pact actually means. God help us, in an election year, if people try to play the immigration card and get a few cheap, racist votes for themselves when trying to tell lies about this migration pact. Are we going to separately legislate for each one? Does the Minister plan to...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the yesterday men on his backbenches. This is not a culture war over gender identity, as some would distort this debate to be. This is about a Croatian man, Josip Štrok, who was beaten to death in an anti-immigrant attack last month. This is about members of the LGBTQ+ community, who are afraid they will be beaten up, or worse. This is about the 23 accommodation centres that have...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...because I sat through contributions a couple of weeks ago in respect of arson attacks and I really expected better from Sinn Féin. One contribution did not mention arson at all. It was all about the immigration system, consultation and all the rest of it. Many of the contributions from Sinn Féin were laudable and said the right thing, things I would absolutely agree with, and...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...it, I was wondering what was going on and now it makes sense to me. The protestors are winning, the roadblockers are winning and the arsonists are winning because Sinn Féin is going to the right on immigration. It is working.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Ukrainians around Mount Street or other parts of the city or country, under the same conditions? The Minister knows all this. We have never had a time in Ireland where elections were determined by immigration, where debates in this House were about immigration and people played the race card, but it is happening now. The only time it happened was 20 years ago, the first time I ran for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...she said about communicating with the Minister. Last week, a debate on the arson attacks took place in the House. During it, quite a number of political groupings focused on issues with the immigration system, the failures of that system, communication issues and all the rest of it. I feel we have reached the point where there is almost a legitimacy being given to those who block...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...for pretty anti-migrant stuff. I have to say - and the Chair may pull me up on this - we have Gript Media here in Ireland, which seems to have taken an editorial decision to heavily focus on immigration, and I am being kind there with regard to what it does. Now it has a pass here to Leinster House. There is money to be made from this stuff. How do we challenge that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., and the family home is now regarded as a legitimate target. Is the Garda adequately equipped to deal with the deepening of this as it becomes more poisonous? How does it deal with the accusation that anti-immigrant or anti-accommodation-centre protesters are being allowed to flout the law and therefore normalise themselves in the national consciousness?

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: .... Of course, the lasting legacy of the Minister, Deputy McEntee, will be the riots last November and burning buses. The Holiday Inn Express, Cathal Brugha Street, was set on fire because rioters thought immigrants were inside. In Finglas, a petrol bomb was thrown into a premises earmarked for refugees, setting part of it on fire. Last December, the former Great Southern Hotel in...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...talking about domestic terrorism when we talk about people setting stuff on fire. While it is open season for people from the Government and, indeed, from the Opposition to start talking about the immigration system, we need to get back to first principles. What we have seen over recent years is a spate of fires, arson attacks, and somebody is going to die. That is inevitable. If and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of mine, a happy 100th birthday. I understand that the Tánaiste received correspondence from the British Labour Party at the beginning of September with regard to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill that is going through the British Houses of Parliament and its implications for the Good Friday Agreement, particularly with regard to the jurisdiction of the European...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will say what I have to say without fear of legal action by Members opposite. I will say the following about immigration and this country: we have a moral and an historical obligation in this because the Irish are all over the world. We have an obligation to be as accommodating and welcoming as possible. The Government has a responsibility to give information to the entire country about...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: After "build positive linkages to the benefit of all" to insert the following: "further calls on the Government to: — appoint a dedicated Minister for Immigration and Integration to lead a whole of Government approach to migrant integration, and the provision of emergency accommodation and services; — ensure that, when new...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...when he said that because he was trying to say, "Beware of the outsider; vote for me." Over the past month, we have had another member of the Rural Independents on five different occasions link immigration with criminality; stating on the record of this House that elderly people and women and children are "scared alive". We have another Deputy in the Rural Independents suggest in an...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Five times over the past month, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, in particular, has linked criminality with immigration. Five times, on the record of this House, the Deputy has said that elderly people, women and children are scared alive because of immigration. Is he in any way surprised that he is raising temperatures, tension and fear in local communities when he consistently-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: They know exactly what they are doing when they are linking immigration with criminality.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will state clearly what immigration does to this country. I agree that the Irish are all over the world. It is stunning hypocrisy for us. Two weeks after somebody set fire to a bus on O'Connell Street and had a riot through the city, they must be laughing this morning that the national Parliament is having a discussion on immigration. They must have really felt that they achieved their...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...and knowing that he or she is a fellow human being doing his or her best to raise his or her family and to contribute to society, and what Members in this House are consistently doing is linking immigration with criminality and making people feel fearful of the outsider. I, I have to say, have had enough of it. The Minister has his own responsibility and the Government's...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...cannot suggest we have acted inappropriately as it was not we who produced photographs of vulnerable individuals in the Dáil Chamber. The Minister cannot shout "Jonathan Dowdall", "IRA" or "Special Criminal Court" at us. She cannot accuse us of playing both sides on immigration in local communities as she knows that is not the Labour Party's way. The Minister's post-riot...