It is positive that the process is ongoing. I do not need to remind the Minister that the population in that area of Dublin has exploded, with a huge number of additional housing units due to be constructed in the coming years. There are concerns in that general area that things are not knitting together as neatly as they should. A lot of community infrastructure has come after the fact, such as schools and other basic provision for people. A Garda station lends itself to the feeling of community, security and toge…

The development of this site and this divisional headquarters will be crucial to the faith local people will have in agencies of the State. A lot of them feel let down. The Minister mentioned there are two local authorities. There is any amount of campaigning that consistently goes on for basic provision of community infrastructure in the wider area of Clongriffin, Belmayne and Parkside. We are not serving them well if these things are not seen to be provided in a swift manner. I appreciate the support of Governmen…

I ask the Minister for Justice to provide a comparison in community gardaí numbers in the Dublin area prior to the pandemic and those available currently, and to address concerns over designated community gardaí being designated to other duties.

The numbers are down by 25. I appreciate that, as the Minister said, there was a period in which gardaí were not being trained in Templemore because of the pandemic. I accept that but, still, we are not where we were. I believe, as I hope the Minister does, that there is no more important garda than a community garda. Most young people will get to know the local community garda and will look beyond the uniform. This is particularly important in communities that have an intergenerational issue with An Garda Síochána…

The pandemic period was profoundly damaging to young people. They lost their ability to socialise for the guts of two years and they spent a prolonged period online, where many were attracted to bad actors. Social cohesion has been put under massive strain during and since the pandemic. Schoolteachers, principals and community leaders are all saying that. It is much more difficult now to engage with young people and for them to trust the State because there are so many bad actors, as I call them, online, who are te…

I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: After "build positive linkages to the benefit of all" to insert the following: "further calls on the Government to: — appoint a dedicated Minister for Immigration and Integration to lead a whole of Government approach to migrant integration, and the provision of emergency accommodation and services; — ensure that, when new accommodation and reception centres are being opened, access to healthcare, education, transport and other services are co-ordinated in parallel, with a…

A number of years ago-----

A number of years ago, one of the Deputies opposite suggested that asylum seekers were hoodlums, blackguards and freeloaders-----

-----and he knew what he was saying when he said that because he was trying to say, "Beware of the outsider; vote for me." Over the past month, we have had another member of the Rural Independents on five different occasions link immigration with criminality; stating on the record of this House that elderly people and women and children are "scared alive". We had another Deputy in the Rural Independents suggest in an interview last year that we are losing our culture because of immigration. All of this is: beware o…

They voted against it because they might have to pay their own workers a little bit more money.

This is the politics of the Rural Independents because they want to consistently tell me-----

What they want to consistently tell people is, "You need to be afraid of the outsider; vote for me." I would say to the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and to the Minister-----

I did not utter a word when I was listening to the falsehoods and scaremongering-----

-----of the presentations the Deputy made earlier this morning.

And I was elected by the people of Dublin Bay North.

Five times-----

Five times over the past month, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, in particular, has linked criminality with immigration. Five times, on the record of this House, the Deputy has said that elderly people, women and children are scared alive because of immigration. Is he in any way surprised that he is raising temperatures, tension and fear in local communities when he consistently-----

You know exactly what you are doing.

They know exactly what they are doing when they are linking immigration with criminality.

I will state clearly what immigration does to this country. I agree that the Irish are all over the world. It is stunning hypocrisy for us. Two weeks after somebody set fire to a bus on O'Connell Street and had a riot through the city, they must be laughing this morning that the national Parliament is having a discussion on immigration. They must have really felt that they achieved their goal when they ripped through the city centre, when they assaulted gardaí, when they set fire to Garda vehicles, when they intimi…