Immigration: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2023-12-06
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LAB), Dublin Bay North

There are things that are more important than getting votes. There are things more important than re-election for yourself. There are things that are more important to the human condition about solidarity and about looking somebody else in the eye and knowing that he or she is a fellow human being doing his or her best to raise his or her family and to contribute to society, and what Members in this House are consistently doing is linking immigration with criminality and making people feel fearful of the outsider. I, I have to say, have had enough of it.
The Minister has his own responsibility and the Government's responsibility to send out information which is myth-busting. It is the Minister's responsibility to challenge this stuff head-on. It is the Minister's responsibility to make sure that when people of good nature, good character and good politics are faced with this sort of rhetoric, we have the information to hand in order to dispel these myths.
I will not stand in this Chamber and listen to the type of lies, fearmongering-----

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Sitting date: 2023-12-06