International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-18
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Neale Richmond (FG), Dublin Rathdown

It took him 90 seconds to raise the canard of the EU army. I was just waiting for him to talk about straight bananas; that is how ridiculous he got at one stage. The absolute twisting of truth is lessening this debate. It took Deputy Tóibín seven minutes to actually mention the pact at hand. He was citing issues, talking about a hard border, checks at a border, no checks at a border. He was talking about welcoming immigrants and then talking about a firmer system. He then talked about this entire notion, which I will come to in a minute, that somehow we can do this all on our own and we would be better on our own. Taking the names of Connolly and Pearse into the context of this debate lessens the debate. It just shows the sort of populist nonsense he has been doing. He is very welcome back to the Chamber; I appreciate he spent the past number of weeks campaigning.

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Sitting date: 2024-06-18