Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----and he knew what he was saying when he said that because he was trying to say, "Beware of the outsider; vote for me."

Over the past month, we have had another member of the Rural Independents on five different occasions link immigration with criminality; stating on the record of this House that elderly people and women and children are "scared alive". We have another Deputy in the Rural Independents suggest in an interview last year that we are losing our culture because of immigration. All of this is: beware of the outsider; vote for me. There is nothing more despicable, more cowardly and more debased in Irish politics than the actions of the members of the Rural Independent Group in relation to the immigration question.

If they are saying that on the floor of this House, you can only imagine what they are saying in public meetings or at doorsteps in their own constituencies because even though their voting record in here is anti-women, anti-LGBT, anti-road safety and anti-worker - I remember that famously, we brought forward a motion in terms of having a living wage for workers-----

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