Government claims that asylum seekers are putting further pressure on Ireland’s housing crisis are an ‘absolute red herring' - Shane Coleman.
Government claims that asylum seekers are putting further pressure on Ireland’s housing crisis are an ‘absolute red herring’, Shane Coleman has said.
“A country of five million people seeing its population rise by 2% - which is what’s happening at the moment - is too fast.” “The problems all related to asylum seekers and their people not wanting them - wrongly, in my view - in their local community,” he said.“So, it's a complete red herring to talk about the population growing by 2% and Leo Varadkar knows that – it’s an absolute red herring.
The following day Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien backed the Taoiseach’s comments – insisting that immigration was a factor contributing to the high numbers of people accessing homeless services in Ireland.“Asylum seekers coming here have had no impact on the housing market at all – that’s another myth that needs to be that needs to be ,” he said.
“We've had debates all of last week about whether or not immigration is contributing to our housing problem,” she said.
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