Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

To repeat, I am actually standing here to say the far right are liars and Nazi sympathisers. They spread bile and lies, first of all about single men, and then it extends to all refugees, including the terrified women and children we saw in the videos the other day. It is the far right that are spreading the riots. They are Nazi sympathisers and they see racism as a tool to deflect against what is going on in society. Unfortunately, however, it is deflecting against the Government and the problems it has created. The far right say Ireland is full but I will tell you what Ireland is full of: empty homes. There are 165,000 of them and the Government has never dealt with that. The homes have been lying empty for a long time under successive Governments of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, sometimes backed up by other parties that go into coalition with them. It is their policies that are creating the problem. If not, what the Government is saying to me is that ordinary people up and down the country who get sucked into this stuff are all baddies. I am not saying that; I am saying they are getting sucked in, instead of deflecting to the Government. The likes of Michael Lowry and Mattie McGrath, if they really cared about the people in north Tipperary, would be organising protests against the policies of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. They would not be voting against motions of no confidence; they would be voting to keep the eviction ban. They would, therefore, be providing services that would keep our nurses, doctors, vets, dentists and all the young people we educate in the country and deal with the lack of services in Roscrea and elsewhere.

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