Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise with the Taoiseach and the Chief Whip the lack of business being transacted this week. Where has the debate on the EU migration pact gone? Everyone knows that the European elections and local elections are due to take place. The pact was due back from committee in the first week of May and was supposed to have been disposed of by the House by 9 May, as we were told. It has just gone missing. We raised this matter at a Business Committee meeting last week. We have problems all over the country. There was a public meeting last night at the Pike in Rathcabbin to discuss St. Kieran's Nursing Home which had been given over for Ukrainians and is now being turned into an International Protection Accommodation Services centre. It is the same with the Heywood Road site in Clonmel, and what happened in Newtownmountkennedy and Doneraile in Cork. You name it. There has been trouble and violence in some of these places. I abhor violence from any source. We do not want that, but a vacuum has been created. This was voted through the EU and now the European Union Parliament members and candidates want it hidden until after the election. The Government also wants it hidden as well. Then we will be back and it will be pushed through. People are not fools. They are well copped on to the Government. Where is the EU migration pact? When will it back here for debate? How much time will we have to debate it? Will it be voted on segment by segment as opposed to all in one block?

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