Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent Ireland Party)

When people came here from Ukraine, the Irish people opened their houses and their hearts to help them. Many people from Ukraine have actually integrated and are staying here. They are working, contributing and paying tax here. Many people of different nationalities have immigrated into this country from Poland and other countries. They are now part of our workforce. They are now working here. They came here through a process, with documentation and everything, and they are working. They are seeing other nationalities coming in here that are abusing the situation. Due to the hatred that is being put out there, they now feel that people are looking at them as if they are here illegally. They are people who came into this country and are working. We asked them to come here, their lives are here and the next generation is here now. They are being tarred with the one brush. They are very upset with what the Government has done with people who have come here with no documentation, and that documentation has not been looked for. People who came here from other countries and have been working here, providing for people who are vulnerable, are disappointed with the Government for not vetting people coming into this country.

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