Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

The point I made before the debate was suspended was that we cannot forget our complicity in creating the conditions that make people seek asylum in the first place, a complicity that makes this Bill and how it is being handled even more unforgivable. There are currently 60 million people all over the world who are displaced - that is one in every 122 people worldwide. Thanks to what Dr. Tom Clonan has described as the virtual forward air base of the US military that lies in Shannon Airport, Ireland has had a significant part to play in the that displacement. That is just a fact. We have done nothing about it. We facilitate war and the movement of weapons to places like Saudi Arabia. We play a central role in all of this, and then turn round to the people who are the victims of it and offer them this appalling travesty of a Bill.

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