Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Undocumented Migrants: Immigration Control Platform
2:30 pm
Mr. Ted Neville:
If Deputies find that people are not hammering down the door at their clinics talking about this issue as a major issue, then I will genuinely put it to them. I could walk down the road to my nearest Deputy and put it to him as well, but I know he will not stand up on his hind feet in Dáil Éireann, face the camera and start talking about my concerns about immigration. It is not mentioned in either of the two Houses of the Oireachtas. It simply is not discussed. Deputies have a duty, and I envy them. I would love to have been in the House, but I am not, and with 2% of the vote I will not be. The Deputies who are there are disenfranchising even 15% of the population by not maturely discussing immigration and by using the terms and opinions that we heard earlier from certain members. I do not think that really adds to the situation. That is my challenge.
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