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Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There is asbestos.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is not what any of the reports say. It is brand-new information to us that there is asbestos in the hospital. Until now, all we have been told is that the State does not own it. It is owned by the HSE, which, it transpires, is the biggest land hoarder in the State, with over 300 empty properties, some of which I know of in my constituency. People have been described as racists and...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Social Democrats, particularly Deputy Whitmore, for tabling this motion. One of the first words in the motion is "humanitarian". It is important that we remember that this should be at the centre of whatever policy we are trying to enact here. The Government's responses and actions not only frame the national attitude to potential immigration but also underline the competency...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Carol Nolan: There are some of us in this Chamber who could rightfully stand up and say "I told you so". I told the Government and the Minister's colleague, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, in the Dáil 22 months ago that we were heading towards a totally unsustainable and chaotic social catastrophe, and here we are. I said it would bring about more human misery than we could possibly deal with...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gino Kenny: The Minister will agree that nobody should be homeless, regardless of where they are from. That could be Dublin, Cork, Belfast or Galway. Nobody should be homeless in this day and age. We can all agree that for decades the policy has been free-market ideology that has normalised homelessness. It has put people on the street and without shelter. At the moment, there are 14,000 people in...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: On the same theme, I was out earlier with Martin Leahy who comes up from Cork every Thursday to sing his song, "Everyone Should Have a Home", outside the Dáil. I want to let people know that on 18 April, after we return from the Easter break, it will be his 100th week. All of us who are concerned with homelessness and the crisis of immigration and the homelessness of immigrants should...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I was out canvassing during the week, and I knocked on a door and met a gentleman I have known, along with his family, for years. He said the Minister and his Government are making him a racist. This man was never a racist. He was a hardworking man who raised a good family. He never had an issue with refugees or asylum seekers. He has an adult child who has a disability and he has had to...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I really do not know what to say after those contributions from Sinn Féin. I am disappointed I have to say this, because I sat through contributions a couple of weeks ago in respect of arson attacks and I really expected better from Sinn Féin. One contribution did not mention arson at all. It was all about the immigration system, consultation and all the rest of it. Many of the...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

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Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: We are not going to the right at all. We have to deal with people on the ground. I will not have that said.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

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Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----and also-----

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will not have that said. I am on the front line.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Excuse me, Deputy.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have been attacked, in my home and my office, and I will not listen to that from him.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is remarkable how, when I try to make a constructive comment about other people's presentations in the Chamber-----

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

John Brady: In fairness, it is not constructive. It is a cheap attempt.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

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Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is quite clear-----

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

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