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Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...to challenge those who fan the flames of unjust hatred. The Government needs to provide increased supports for asylum seekers and the communities hosting them, but it also needs to start acting on anti-immigration sentiment, which has now risen to dangerous levels, driven by just a few people. Attacks such as these cannot be tolerated and the perpetrators of such violence and of hate...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...to this island seeking international protection to more than 100,000 in the past two years. Whether we like it or not, that has placed huge pressure on our accommodation system and our overall immigration system. With my colleagues, we are doing everything we can to respond to it. Whether Deputy Ó Ríordáin likes it, the fact that people are asking questions about the...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...been no convictions. We gave free rein to the idea that a building can be burnt down, which I absolutely deplore. I will talk about asylum seekers and the deliberate of blurring of words - immigration, asylum seekers and refugees - and why it is important not to do that. Before doing that, I have no hesitation in absolutely condemning arson. I come from Galway city. I described a...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...and have not engaged in any threatening or violent acts against the properties they live in. It is also important to point out that even though there are people who protest against the policy of the State in seeking to provide accommodation to those seeking international protection in their areas, the vast majority of those people would completely condemn any arson attacks. In my...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Michael Collins: ...foremost, let me be unequivocal. Any deliberate arson attack on property is condemnable, regardless of the rationale behind such acts. They are criminal and should be dealt with swiftly by the State's law enforcement authority, An Garda Síochána. The risk of someone being killed or injured in an arson attack is real and the act of burning buildings is deeply wrong and...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: At the outset, I wish to state that the spate of burning buildings nationwide in response to plans to use these buildings for emergency accommodation, or even the mere suggestion or rumours suggesting that they will be used for emergency accommodation, is repulsive and reprehensible. I say this as a TD who grew up in a village where criminals attempted to burn one such building. There is no...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Farrell: ...or to act in a way that threatens public order. Neither should it ever be accepted that property is somehow fair game for destruction because of a particular ideology or stance against long-standing State policy. Ireland is a diverse and tolerant country and our population is rising at a remarkable rate, as illustrated just this morning on social media by the author Mark Henry when he...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...Niall has worked in America for many years on behalf of the people that Deputy Ó Riordáin spoke about. He has worked very hard to make sure the Irish in America are treated properly and that Irish immigration reform is appropriately and properly handled. I fully support that work. We can draw an historic parallel between the people who are burning premises and opposing new...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----and cracking down and have stated we are going to see an awful lot more deportations. What have we dealt with over recent years? As has been said, in 2018, the Caiseal Mara Hotel, Moville, County Donegal, where 100 asylum seekers were proposed to be accommodated, was burned out. The Shannon Key West Hotel on the Roscommon-Leitrim border was set on fire and a second fire was lit a...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...talking about domestic terrorism when we talk about people setting stuff on fire. While it is open season for people from the Government and, indeed, from the Opposition to start talking about the immigration system, we need to get back to first principles. What we have seen over recent years is a spate of fires, arson attacks, and somebody is going to die. That is inevitable. If and...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

James Browne: ...people. As the Minister, Deputy McEntee, has addressed the criminal justice aspects of these crimes, I will use my time to update the House on the incredible work that is under way to make our immigration and international protection processes smoother, quicker and more efficient. That work is being done for the benefit of local communities here in Ireland and for those people who...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since I came into office, we have debated the issues of migration, immigration, international protection and the war in Ukraine extensively in this Chamber. We have done it through statements, oral questions and Leaders' Questions. Those debates have been robust and informative. This is entirely appropriate. We are in the midst of one of the greatest humanitarian exercises and responses...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...of the recent arson attacks that have been carried out by a small number of people determined to sow division in our communities. I want to be very clear that, while I will address issues around immigration today, the matter of arson is a criminal and violent act, and is not under any circumstances a legitimate form of protest. Immigration has been extremely positive for this country. I...