Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-12
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Liam Quaide (SD), Cork East

In recent weeks, some of the responses from the Government to the challenges in the international protection system include: offering families €10,000 to withdraw their asylum applications, thereby implying that they are a nuisance to be got rid of with cash; announcing plans to charge asylum seekers for what, in many cases, is substandard accommodation directly after an attack on an IPAS centre in Drogheda, a measure which is estimated to cost more to implement than any revenue it will generate; congratulating Independent Ireland on drawing unfounded links between increased knife crime and inward migration following the horrific crime that occurred at an IPAS centre in Saggart; and cynically stating that migrant numbers are too high after the drubbing it received in the presidential election. All of this political reaction is designed to show the Government is tough on migration and to win back votes. It is leading our country down a dark path of scapegoating refugees and asylum seekers. What is the Government's actual long-term plan with regard to international protection? Is the Catherine Day report of 2020 going to gather dust indefinitely or will it be implemented?

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Sitting date: 2025-11-12