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Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A number of years ago, one of the Deputies opposite suggested that asylum seekers were hoodlums, blackguards and freeloaders-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----and he knew what he was saying when he said that because he was trying to say, "Beware of the outsider; vote for me." Over the past month, we have had another member of the Rural Independents on five different occasions link immigration with criminality; stating on the record of this House that elderly people and women and children are "scared alive". We have another Deputy in the...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: They voted against it because they might have to pay their own workers a little bit more money.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This is the politics of the Rural Independents because they want to consistently tell me-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: What they want to consistently tell people is, "You need to be afraid of the outsider; vote for me." I would say to the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and to the Minister-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I did not utter a word when I was listening to the falsehoods and scaremongering-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----of the presentations the Deputy made earlier this morning.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: And I was elected by the people of Dublin Bay North.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Five times-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Five times over the past month, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, in particular, has linked criminality with immigration. Five times, on the record of this House, the Deputy has said that elderly people, women and children are scared alive because of immigration. Is he in any way surprised that he is raising temperatures, tension and fear in local communities when he consistently-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: You know exactly what you are doing.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: They know exactly what they are doing when they are linking immigration with criminality.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will state clearly what immigration does to this country. I agree that the Irish are all over the world. It is stunning hypocrisy for us. Two weeks after somebody set fire to a bus on O'Connell Street and had a riot through the city, they must be laughing this morning that the national Parliament is having a discussion on immigration. They must have really felt that they achieved their...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There are things that are more important that getting votes. There are things more than re-election for yourself. There are things that are more important to the human condition about solidarity and about looking somebody else in the eye and knowing that he or she is a fellow human being doing his or her best to raise his or her family and to contribute to society, and what Members in this...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----and lowest common denominator politics-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am happy to use the word "untruths".

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will say what I have to say without fear of legal action by Members opposite. I will say the following about immigration and this country: we have a moral and an historical obligation in this because the Irish are all over the world. We have an obligation to be as accommodating and welcoming as possible. The Government has a responsibility to give information to the entire country about...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Ask your lawyer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many schools currently utilise temporary prefab accommodation for classrooms; how much was spent on leasing or rental of such buildings in 2022; how much is budgeted for them for 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53894/23]