Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I mentioned in my earlier reply, a community engagement team has been established. It is engaging directly with elected representatives, relevant local than local authorities, the local development companies and other entities and individuals. The purpose of the community engagement team is to improve the flow of information regarding arrivals into areas and to help equip local communities with information required to help them understand the current situation and to assist with the welcome and integration process for new arrivals. The team is there to hear people's concerns and to respond to them. People will have reasonable concerns about the impact on services like healthcare and education, issues around safety in some cases and the impact on the local economy. The whole role of that community engagement team is to give people information, to dispel misinformation and to listen to genuine concerns that people have when a large number of people move into their town. That is the whole idea around engagement.

I know Deputy Healy-Rae is not saying otherwise, but I should say that nobody has a right of veto to say who lives near them, beside them, or in their town or village. I do not. Deputy Healy-Rae does not. I know he is not calling for it. It is not the case that community engagement is about seeking permission from communities as to whether people are going to move into the area, it is about information, dispelling misinformation and responding to genuine worries about services, safety and the local economy.

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