Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of the Rural Independent Group and in support of Deputy Carol Nolan, I ask for a reasonable, balanced, understanding and civil debate. The Taoiseach has said debate is not being stopped or suppressed in the House, but it is. Why can we not have a debate on the situation of migration? I am not talking about the war in Ukraine, which the Taoiseach has an obsession with, as I said previously. I am talking about migration from countries that have safe places and where there is no war. I have quoted figures previously to the Taoiseach. Some 3,100 people have come from Albania in the first ten months of this year with no documentation. Níl píosa amháin acu - nothing - and others have come from many other countries. The Taoiseach said our immigration and border controls are working but they are not working. How are they getting in here? We cannot afford to have them here.

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