Of those 760 applications, 479 had been granted protection in another EU member state
“It is incompetence of the highest degree. It is Government by the cast of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.”
“Our children aren’t safe”: Kinnegad locals express concern over lack of vetting for asylum seekers in their town.
In fact, asking some Ukrainian refugees to go home would probably be good for Ukraine.
It is just another place, out there in commuterland, whose children will grow up, go to UCD, and then, perhaps, to Australia.
The background to this is that MacLochlainn, who represents Donegal, is naturally enough complaining that the MICA bill does not provide enough money to fix all the collapsing houses.
Putting on pressure.
Why, if it isn’t the consequences of his own policies.
“I HIT A NERVE”: Carol Nolan TD speaks on her immigration clash with Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien in the Dáil, dubbing the Minister’s response “a disgrace.”
BEN SCALLAN: Fine Gael Senator Garrett Ahearn says Mattie McGrath’s views on capping refugee numbers “do not reflect the majority.” But according to recent polls, they actually do – and Ahearn, not McGrath, is woefully out of step with public opinion:
Capping the number of people we can accommodate is not an expression of cruelty or bigotry, but an expression of our own ability to do basic mathematics.
SF TD Kathleen Funchion says remarks made by TD Carol Nolan feed into a “rightwing negative hatred type narrative”