Seanad debates

Thursday, 10 October 2002

Address by President of the European Parliament.

 

We are told that we will be flooded with immigrants. This is a lie. The level of migration to this country since Europe lost its Iron Curtain and people are free to travel has been negligible. The Irish know a lot about freedom to travel. There are more Irish illegals in Boston today than the sum of all the refugees and asylum seekers in this State. How did they get there? They had a passport and were therefore free to travel, but they did not have the right to work. In terms of the right to travel versus the right to work, the Irish know that if one can move and is determined, one will do it and take one's chances upon arrival. Having rid themselves of communist oppression and equipped themselves with a passport in a visa free environment a decade ago, how come they are not already here? The answer is because they do not want to be here. The argument to the contrary is a lie.

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