Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The most effective way to do anything about this is to try to implement, as quickly as we can, the policy position adopted recently by the Government in respect of direct construction of State-owned centres in parallel with the private sector, which is providing the majority of accommodation to date.

The problem, as we just discussed with respect to the EU asylum pact, is that there are unprecedented levels of migration across Europe and the world. Many political parties in many countries have risen on the strength of it. We saw what happened in the UK where Brexit became a consequence of migration. It changed the whole politics of the country with devastating results, I would argue, in terms of the economy and so on. It is not simple.

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