Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

When the Taoiseach answers the Deputies' questions, in particular those of Deputies Haughey and Tóibín, will he explain the complications for a person seeking sanctuary in Ireland coming from Eritrea, for example, where they do not have the capacity to get a passport in the way we do, or a person fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, where passports have not been issued since 2021, or a person arriving to Ireland from Georgia fleeing on the grounds of LGBT persecution, or a person from a place where we have not given any working visas to? There is a complexity to this and there is dog-whistling under the guise of speaking on behalf of middle Ireland. The people of Ireland are very decent but we need to understand the complexities and streamline the process to make it easier for people coming here, particularly from regions of the world where it is far more difficult to access the resources we have at our disposal in Ireland.

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