Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said that “the State has within its power the capacity to make sure that we don’t have tents back up on Mount Street”, adding that it is “not acceptable for migrants” and that government has a “determination” to ensure it won’t happen again.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin says that the Department of Justice failing to register an asylum seeker as a sex offender, despite being aware of his offence for years, is “not satisfactory at all”. He added that the Department must “inquire as to why that happened.”
“The scheme is not without its issues.”
“There are no easy solutions.”
Building more prisons is a “misguided” approach to the problem of crime, Labour Party Justice spokesman Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said, adding that Ireland needs a “fundamental change in approach” to the justice system. Reacting this week to reports from the Prison Officers’ Association which said that problems of overcrowding, drug abuse and attacks in […]
New Department of Housing data.
“Big trouble here”: A Palestinian asylum seeker living in the IPO tent city on Mount Street has told Gript that he can’t sleep at night because as many as “10 or 11” other asylum seekers living in the tents are buying drugs. He asked to have his face blurred to avoid “trouble.”
“Denmark is a very different system to us.”
Asked about Michael McNamara’s viral exchange with Helen McEntee this week, Taoiseach Simon Harris said he hasn’t seen the Committee debate. He also said that Ireland would have to significantly improve asylum processing times by 2026 when the EU Migration Pact comes into force.
“This pact is not being forced on anyone.”
“Woke – whatever that means.”
In the Ireland South constituency.