Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that the government’s “engagement” with local communities on asylum centres is not about “seeking permission,” but instead about helping locals to “understand the current situation.”
Speaking to the Dáil during Leader’s Questions on Tuesday, he said that while some people have “reasonable concerns” about asylum centres in their area – such as “the impact on services like healthcare and education, issues around safety in some cases and the impact on the local economy” – the “whole role” of community engagement was simply to provide information and dispel “misinformation” for locals.
“The whole role of that community engagement team is to give people information, to dispel misinformation and to listen to genuine concerns that people have when a large number of people move into their town,” he said.
“That is the whole idea around engagement…nobody has a right of veto to say who lives near them, beside them, or in their town or village.”
He added that it was “not the case” that community engagement is about asking locals for permission to put an asylum centre in their area.
“It is not the case that community engagement is about seeking permission from communities as to whether people are going to move into the area,” he said.
“It is about information, dispelling misinformation and responding to genuine worries about services, safety and the local economy.”
The statement comes just days after a protest on Saturday at Rosslare Harbour in Wexford, where locals expressed frustration that 420 refugees were set to move into their area in addition to the 350 already living there.
“Enough is enough,” said Independent councillor and Wexford County Council vice-chairman Ger Carthy, as reported by the Irish Examiner.
“We have done a lot to help refugees for years, but to find that more are coming is just something we have to object to, because resources for the population that are here no longer exist. There is no primary care centre, there are no more school places, access to local GP services is already at breaking point, and people just can’t take it anymore.”
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My God the arrogance of Varadkar, nobody has the right to have a say about who lives near them, fair enough is those people are paying to buy a property, if however you are paying for it in your taxes its a different matter. No Government has the right change the demographic of a country without a mandate from the people. Time to have a referendum and let the people decide.
He has basically said that Ireland is not a democracy.
Nobody can now say they haven’t been told .
There is a clear choice at the next election – Democracy or Dictatorship.
Anybody who votes for any party that supports the concept of the demographic reconfiguration of Irish communities by a central government which does not ‘seek permission’ is voting for dictatorship.
And don’t think they won’t take this concept further as the UN/WEF/EU agenda rolls out further .
Yes , he is incredibly arrogant. But he is also being open and frank . And he is being supported by FF / Grns /SF . Democracy is secondary to , and superseded by , the world view of these globalist parties. There is no longer any spin on the reality . There is no longer any attempt to sugar coat the pill. There it is , out in the open , made clear as a bell by the leader of the country. And it is only the beginning of massive change for which the permission of the people will not be sought.
There is a very real possibility that the next election will be last democratic choice the people of Ireland will have.
The next election will be last democratic choice people will have, you say. What do we have now, do you reckon?
We have a highly imperfect democratic system which elects people who then act undemocratically. But we have now reached a tipping point . The time has come when the globalists are making their big moves . They are showing their true selves. The agenda is out in the open. They cannot continue to move towards their ultimate destination whilst masking their intentions with smoke and mirrors.
That brings us to a dangerous phase. The democratic system is the only thing that could derail their plans. They absolutely need their ideologists to keep getting elected, irrespective of which globalist party they belong to. But there will be an absolute determination to prevent their globalist agenda from being derailed in any way. And they will not stop at undermining democracy to ensure that their plans are not derailed.
There are many ways to undermine or abuse the democratic system. The UN/WEF have already indicated that new types of democracies are required which involve big business and ‘stakeholders’ in the decision making processes and the consequent dilution of the powers of the electorate. They are open abut the fact that national populations need to be disempowered. The democratic system can be undermined by control of the media and of social media and this is already happening . Banking facilities being withheld from new parties with the ‘wrong’ kind of views is already happening elsewhere. NGO’s can be given disproportionate influence and funding and this is already happening. In Europe today there are serious discussions about banning certain right leaning popular parties. Demographic change can be manipulated to electoral advantage. Hate speech laws can be used to prevent rational debate on controversial policies.
But I do think that in Ireland the globalist parties need one more relatively ‘normal’ election victory before they can stitch things up in their own favour for good. And that is why I think that the next election may well be the very last change to prevent the country from sliding into a de facto uni party dictatorship from which it can never be extradited . Democracy in Ireland is not in good shape but it is not completely gone yet. But it is heading that way at a very rapid pace.
A masterful summation of where we are at now Eamon
A great analysis but where are the candidates for the next election who will oppose the current govt policies? There are none.
I agree that there is no opposition party in place and that is the nub of the problem and it is why democracy is at stake. In the absence of an opposition the only option left to voters at the next election will be to vote for candidates from any of the nationalist parties or for independents . Basically any candidate who is not FF/FG/SF/Grn/Lab/PBP. I know it’s a shot in the dark and would be counterintuitive to many people but it’s better to take a leap of faith into the unknown than to vote for the certain destruction of Ireland and Irish identity.
Irish Freedom Party
Irish Freedom Party
“nobody has a right of veto to say who lives near them, beside them, or in their town or village.”
I’ll give this to Leo he is very talented at taking a perfectly reasonable position, people saying no to enormous numbers of foreigners arriving into small towns and villages and being given shelter (at tax payer expense) often when Irish people are homeless in the same town and they get no state funded accomodation, and making it seem like people are adopting extremist positions.
Describing it as people seeking a veto over who lives near them is a very smart way of making a reasonable position sound extremely sinister
‘Ireland for the Irish’ is totally racist, and we can’t be allowing vetos at th local level either.
In other news, your friendly, local FG candidate is attending a thank-you reception and dinner tonight, joint-hosted by Concerned-Citizens-of-Dun-Laoghaire & the Greystones-is-Full committees …..
It’s perfectly permissible for people to say no. No reason is needed other than, “because we live here”.
Our forefathers fought to give us freedom and nation state privileges.
Well he could not be more clear or concise. He will do what he pleases and communities have no say until the next election. Remember them then.
What on earth is going to happen at the next election that will change this? Name one candidate who will change it. A candidate of passion would be vocal now if he existed.
You make sure the government parties are trounced at the next election. That is what sends out the message that this is not acceptable
So who will you be voting for who will trounce them?
The Irish Freedom party will stop this crap Mary.
There is great unrest against the endless fillings of the migrant centres but the Irish Freedom Party are not to be heard.
Nonsense. I am a member and we are very active with our limited numbers
Talk your friends, family and workmates and tell them the urgency of the situation.
It would appear that the people of Dalkey, Howth, Monkstown, Donnybrook and Foxrock most definitely have a say in whether the government settles several hundred young men from non-western mostly Islamic countries overnight in their communities or maybe it’s just a coincidence that none of these affluent upper middle class districts are being settled in such a way.
Where have that here in Ranelagh. Your presumption is divisive. No where is safe from this re-engineering, we should remain together in this
Have you not noticed the construction of apartments blocks (512 units) in Howth? Did they even consider the increase in traffic etc? Do they think because it is Howth that the prices will be in line with Howth property prices? If so these will certainly not be for social housing and asylum seekers.
Varadka never mentioned filling the country with foreign aliens in his election manifesto. Where did he get permission to fundamentally alter the demographic composition of Ireland in a way that is near impossible to undo. He was elected to look after the place for four or five years not to smash social cohesion and destroy the country. He is a. Arrogant snide creep.
This is tyranny.
Cos ar bolg.
The government is attacking the country.
What the hell right does he have to go against the will of an entire country, destroying it? Who does he think he is? We have a tiny amount of people in power thinking they have more say than millions of people.
He said ” No body has a right to veto who lives near them”. What about ” local needs” planning requirements? Is this not automatically veoting who lives beside certain people? Will this requirement be scrapped to help house fakeugees? I BLEEDING THINK NOT!
He’s incorrect there – the Irish people actually do have a right to veto who comes to live in the country as a whole.
An absolute right, as per the soverignty principle on which the Constitution is founded. If the people express a majority wish, then party policies are void, and ‘agreements’ entered with outside agencies are overruled.
Everyone knows that this ‘humanitarian’ charade is exactly that.
And it’s laughable to think that either the financiers Varadkar thinks he should be acting on behalf of, who are demanding this settlement programme, or the taoiseach himself are motivated by anything remotely resembling humanitarian concerns.