Some believe that Roderic O’Gorman’s intent is to highlight that a drastic slashing of Ireland’s offering to refugees is needed to make coming here less attractive and in turn lower the numbers arriving
Some believe Roderic O’Gorman’s intent is to highlight that a drastic slashing of Ireland’s offering to refugees is needed to make coming here less attractiveMinister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman’s department has been warning for months of bed shortfalls but has always managed to scramble and find more accommodation. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Whatever about the precise details, the fact it became public at all is the problem for the Coalition – and an indication of how frayed the question of how to accommodate refugees has become.Gerry Thornley: Extending Bundee Aki’s contract is good business from IRFUBehind the scenes, officials have been working for weeks on a new approach. However, those plans have now sparked a heated row, and crystallised a reality which has been obvious for months: the system exists on a razor’s edge.
This is true: this Government has been fastidious, ever since fractious exchanges over Covid in 2020, about tight processes governing what comes to Cabinet. On “all of Government” challenges, proposals are shaped within departments and by a senior officials group , attended by senior political aides. They then go to a Cabinet subcommittee, before being agreed by the three Coalition party leaders before Cabinet meetings.
O’Gorman, in turn, pushed back strongly, venting that there had been multiple Cabinet subcommittees discussing the issue at length, without any decision or outcome. In reality, while the manner in which it was presented to Cabinet was unconventional, that obscures a wider truth: O’Gorman had been working the channels for months. After numbers began to rise in the spring and into summer, he was trying to prepare the political ground for a tricky policy.
There is a broad consensus that reforms will come. Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said on Thursday that “the status quo can’t continue”, and two separate Cabinet sources predicted a “combined outcome” or a “more complete proposal” soon. The Greens believe a new proposal could be tabled in the coming weeks.
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