Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This issue concerns a Palestinian couple. The man came here last May and was joined by his wife and their two children in June. She is currently 12 weeks pregnant. Inhumanely, yesterday they received a letter telling them they had to move from their accommodation in Galway. The wife is pregnant and the two children are in the local school within walking distance. I wrote in desperation to IPAS and I also wrote to the Minister. Other than an acknowledgement that they were looking at it, nothing happened. On the ground, however, something happened and the family had to move from their roots in Galway up to Dublin. There was no acknowledgement from the Government that this is inhumane or of the trauma we have described this afternoon. They managed to get some type of peace and to settle in Galway and then they were moved like a product.

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