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

Yes, of course people who are migrants might commit crimes, just as people who are not commit crimes. In a country of 5.3 million people, if there are hundreds of thousands of migrants, there are going to be a few of them who commit terrible crimes, just as there are people born and bred in Ireland who commit terrible crimes every day, including murder. When I look at what happened on Parnell Square, what I see is a suspect who is a migrant, although a citizen and someone who has been here for over 20 years. I see a five-year-old child in hospital today, both her parents coming from migrant backgrounds, with her born in Ireland. Of the five or six people who intervened to stop the attack, four of them were migrants to this country. It is totally wrong to try to make out that there is a connection between crime and migration based on what happened on Parnell Street.

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