An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2022-11-29
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Sharon Keogan (IND), Industrial and Commercial Panel

I respect the Leader's view. The hashtag, IrelandisFull, is trending on Twitter and will continue to do so. I saw one user clap back by saying our population density is much lower than that of the Netherlands. This would be the definitive rebuttal the person thought it was if we were taking in migrants to stand still in fields in order to achieve some arbitrary statistic of persons per square kilometre. However, we are not. We do not have the houses or healthcare system, which is looking for a €1.4 billion bailout. We do not have the transport infrastructure. This country, due to the policies of successive Governments, does not have the structural-----

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Sitting date: 2022-11-29