Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am an Irish republican. I lead an Irish republican party. I believe passionately in the principles of equality and inclusion. I despise every form of bigotry, sectarianism, racism, exclusion and discrimination. For our part, our commitment to equality includes tackling wealth inequality, standing up for working-class communities, for ordinary people and families and for carers, and investing in communities that have been failed and ignored by successive Governments. This is the lens through which I, as an Irish republican, view everything, including migration. It must be for an Irish Government to decide key aspects of our immigration policy. That is how we best achieve an immigration system that is fair, efficient and enforced, an immigration system that protects the human rights of applicants and safely returns those who are not granted status here, a system that upholds the functioning of the nation for all who call Ireland home, a system that ensures fairness, decency, common sense, the protection of human rights and that also commands public support and public confidence.

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