Sharon Keogan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The EU migration pact will have a paltry two and a half weeks of debate in this House in the coming week. The public concern is that we are losing control of our borders, our checks and balances and our safety. A set of legislative instruments such as a pact should rightly be a matter for a referendum to the people but we will not get that because we do not have a Government or a leadership with a vision fixed on the electorate. Instead, our Government leaders have their visions set on Europe, on appeasing the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels who offer high commissions and positions of prestige and prosperity far beyond any office in this House. Our Government is full of ruthless careerists and righteous cultists of woke ideology.

The hate speech Bill and the EU migration pact have two main things in common. Both originate in Brussels and both pose an astounding threat to our democracy. If this Government votes through either of these proposals, only the same can be said of it.