David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The people making these decisions would say that. It is not as if we are completely without defences. We are not the eejits of Europe. I remind the Minister of State, in the context of his bellyaching about an application for 70 people to come here, that Germany has admitted 1 million people. I think the gross number we have admitted is a couple of hundred. God bless us and all the wirrasthruing and barricading about memories of the Famine, massive immigration and the poor people in America who have entered illegally and all the rest of it. We should cop on and take some moral responsibility. I have to respond to the introduction of a financial argument by saying that this is a moral situation.