Simon Harris has said that attempts to physically block asylum seeker accommodation in Co Westmeath was an “effort to intimidate” and that demonstrators “don’t have a right to suggest that they are speaking on behalf of this country”
THE MINISTER FOR Justice has said that attempts to physically block asylum seeker accommodation in Co Westmeath was an “effort to intimidate” and that demonstrators “don’t have a right to suggest that they are speaking on behalf of this country”.
“I have huge confidence in their ability to properly assess a situation and decide how best to police it, taking all factors into account,” he said. A bus carrying asylum seekers entered the premises at around 11.30am on Friday but demonstrators stopped a second bus from entering the premises at around 1pm.
“I got an electoral mandate in the last election, so did every member of Dáil Éireann, and there’s no member of Dáil Éireann, as far as I can see, that supports such actions,” he said.
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