Rural Independent TD says State cannot sustain numbers seeking international protections from State
The Taoiseach said “we are in unprecedented times”, adding: “The world is not in a good place.” Referring to the war in Ukraine the Taoiseach said the State had acted like other EU members to assist those fleeing the war, directly assisting 47,000 people of the 65,000 who have arrived thus far.
He stressed that Ireland works within the EU framework. “We’re a country that believes in a multilateral rules-based system” that applies to people seeking international protection. “I’m not sure though if the Minister didn’t know the figures or was he being deliberately misleading,” he said as he as he pointed to the “staggering 516 per cent increase in new arrivals seeking asylum, excluding those coming from Ukraine”.
He said that “we can’t go anywhere” without a passport and would be sent back and “that’s the way it should be”.
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