Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Dundrum House Hotel in Tipperary is a famed hotel and business run by the late Austin Crowe and his wonderful family for decades. The Minister has taken it over and it has been a reception centre for Ukrainians who have been integrated and well accepted in the area. It is now being made into an IPAS centre without any questions about it and with inadequate infrastructure and there are economic concerns. I have a letter here from the Dundrum residents association, which I salute. There is also the matter of creating integrated settings, which is supposed to be Government policy, which it does not do. There has been absolutely no consultation with the community, public representatives or anybody else. I am glad the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is here. This has been visited on the people of Dundrum. They are welcoming people. Dundrum House Hotel is a linchpin of our tourism product in Tipperary. A very shady business owner is running the place now, to put it mildly.

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