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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am trying to and want to be as fair as I possibly can. There are youth workers who say their work trying to encourage young people not to fall into the trap of the far right, drug gangs and so on is being made more difficult. There are people on the edges of all these actions, including bad actors and those who are led by bad actors. Does the Minister not accept that labelling the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is a label.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Ask your lawyer.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

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: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: After "build positive linkages to the benefit of all" to insert the following: "further calls on the Government to: — appoint a dedicated Minister for Immigration and Integration to lead a whole of Government approach to migrant integration, and the provision of emergency accommodation and services; — ensure that, when new...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A number of years ago-----

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.

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