Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

While this Dáil drowned in dysfunction this week, the Government produced the EU migration implementation pact. While this Parliament was in paralysis this week, the Government sought to sneak through this highly controversial plan. As the Minister knows, this EU migration pact is opposed by a great number of the Irish people. The EU migration pact hands sovereignty on the issue of migration away from the Irish people. The EU migration pact outsources key decisions to the EU. The Government's plan stated yesterday that it could cost billions of euro to implement the plan. The staffing costs will be an extra €117 million. The set-up costs for 14,000 beds could be as high as €875 million. The running cost for those beds could be €725 million, yet there is no reference at all to consultation with local communities, which has been a big problem of the Government's for the last number of years. The Minister for Justice admits that 90% of IPAS applications are coming from Britain through the North of Ireland, yet there is no reference to proper engagement with the British Government about how to control IPAS applicants moving across the Irish Sea. Why is there not and when will the Government do that?

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