Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)

A shared island should not have an invisible hard border for non-EU migrants, but that is the case currently. I have raised this multiple times. In the past a somewhat sympathetic hearing was given to the likes of the North West Migrants Forum.

In this atmosphere of performative cruelty by the Government on migration, I fear it will not make any moves on this. I would be interested to hear it.

I follow up on the question raised by Deputy Coppinger. We are talking about primary school kids being taken out of their home, other children who go to school with them being traumatised, the principal talking about the impact this is having, and then the Minister, let us be clear, goes onto social media and boasts about it. It is Trump-like. That is who Jim O'Callaghan is aping, trying to look hard on migration and trying to problematise migration to distract from the failures of the Government. I have one question. It has been reported in some places that at least some of the children being deported were born in Ireland. Is that the case?

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