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- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Ministers for staying here for the entire debate. We often have Private Members' debates where Ministers are not in a position to stay for the whole thing. I was struck by a comment made by my colleague Deputy Gannon earlier. The Deputy asked about what would happen if he was sitting in the Minister's seat and the Minister as sitting in his during the current situation?...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Joan Collins: On a point of order, it is inappropriate for certain people to say that elected representatives here hate the Irish people. That was totally out of order and should have been slapped down immediately. I would never say that to anybody, even if I disagreed with his or her politics.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you. I see that as a political charge. It was a global comment. I do not think it can be taken as applying to any individual as such.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Joan Collins: It was said that the loony left hates the Irish people. I think that sort of language should be shot down immediately. Sorry, I am not telling the Ceann Comhairle how to do his job but I just think it is-----
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I would much prefer that we had a more restrained debate on these matters and did not enter into that sort of recriminatory-----
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Joan Collins: They are dog whistles.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: If somebody has a complaint to make, I will receive that complaint and deal with it.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I agree with the point made that there is an untold story in Ireland that is not getting the attention it deserves, which is the quiet work being done throughout the country by people in communities who are supporting people seeking international protection. That can be seen in communities throughout Ireland. It does not get the attention others get but it is happening throughout our...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Joan Collins: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing this motion to the House. It is a worthy motion and worthy of good debate. We are watching the Government stand over a rapidly worsening crisis of accommodation for international protection applicants and Irish people. Time and again, the Government has missed the targets it has set for itself. It has become a national disgrace. We are failing...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: There was. It was all there.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Joan Collins: At that time, there were not proper facilities in place. The camp on Mount Street existed because of the failure of the State to provide appropriate accommodation and the camp at Crooksling has quickly become another failure of the State to provide appropriate accommodation. Tents are not appropriate accommodation and the Minister knows that. I know he wants to try to resolve it but we...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Before I call the Minister of State, we have had possibly unnecessarily acrimonious debate over the last while. I can only say this. I grew up in a country that was practically monocultural and practically monoethnic. I am glad that my adult children have grown to adulthood in a country that is multiethnic. I believe that the Ireland we live in today is enriched by the people who have...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Joe O'Brien: Thank you, Ceann Comhairle, for your intervention and your comments. Since January, approximately 2,400 beds have been brought into use for those seeking accommodation by the international protection accommodation services. That said, week in, week out, we are opening new accommodation centres in communities across the country. Thankfully, by and large, they go unremarked upon because,...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Check out the law. It is our responsibility.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: One voice, please.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Carol Nolan: We have unvetted immigration. The Social Democrats need to cop themselves on. They are the facts. The Deputies might not like them but they are the facts.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Gary Gannon: They are not the facts.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: This is a complete misrepresentation.
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Carol Nolan: The hard left is jumping up and down being reckless, naive and gullible.