An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2024-09-24
============================================================

Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

One of the oldest tricks in the book of a cynical government under pressure is the tactic of divide and conquer, and scapegoating innocent people for that government's own failing. That is what we heard from the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, over the weekend, when he essentially hung a target on the backs of asylum seekers, people exiting direct provision and immigrants generally by suggesting-----

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2024-09-24/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:15+00:00
Sitting date: 2024-09-24