An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2024-09-24
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

The Taoiseach used dangerous and dishonest language, suggesting things that are simply not true about asylum seekers and people exiting direct provision, when it is the Government which has exacerbated the homelessness crisis by lifting the no-fault eviction ban and by failing to address the deficit in social and affordable housing. Why does the Minister not ask the Taoiseach to stop scapegoating asylum seekers and immigrants and have, as we have been seeking for months, the discussion that the Government promised we would have on the Housing Commission report, which, of course, laid the blame for the housing crisis where it belongs, namely on the shoulders of this Government?

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Sitting date: 2024-09-24