Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This was the reason I had my name down to speak. I raised the issue with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, when he was standing in for the Taoiseach last week. We have a similar position in the village of Rooskey, County Leitrim, which is only eight miles from my home. I want to repeat what I said last week. We know we have responsibilities to those people and that is not what I am questioning today. There is a veil of secrecy around how this matter is being dealt with and it is not good enough. We must end direct provision. It is simply not the way to do this. To be honest, I refer to the herding of these people into hotels, as is happening in Wicklow and Rooskey, as legalised people trafficking. That is what it is.

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