Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I would like to know also where Sinn Féin stands because on the morning that Trump was elected, Deputy Adams said in the Dáil that he hoped he would play a positive and progressive role in world affairs. That was the statement he made. I know that Sinn Féin issued an invitation to the North but I hope Sinn Féin has moved on by now and will also agree that the Taoiseach should not go to the White House.

There is an unspoken view that the US Administration will make a special deal for the undocumented Irish. That would be completely wrong. It would not show solidarity. What the Taoiseach should do is go to the US, meet the undocumented Irish and the undocumented Latinos, visit African-American organisations and Standing Rock. In the 1840s the Choctaw nation sent money to this country during the Famine. We should stand with it as it is being brutalised and attacked by Trump and his regime. That is the type of solidarity we should show.

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