Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

When the Government wants to scapegoat the public sector, it should think again. In my own constituency, approximately a quarter of the population are immigrants. If it were not for our teachers, operating under quite difficult circumstances in my constituency and that of the Minister of State, Deputy Trevor Sargent, we would not have been able to deal with the integration of a significant number of immigrants who were attracted to Ireland by roadshows by the former Taoiseach and former Tánaiste, Deputy Harney, in places like South Africa. They encouraged people to come to Ireland.

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