Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion

Photo of Aodhán Ó RíordáinAodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have two very quick questions. I appreciate that I only have a minute left. The Minister may have already answered my first question because I was in and out of the room. The Minister can appreciate that there are other things going on, not least of which are the Stardust statements. Are we going to separately legislate for each of the measures in this pact, and very importantly, does the Minister propose to do a large-scale public information campaign to inform people about what this pact actually means, and not what it does not mean? As the Minister can guess, there are already bad actors in this space who are trying to give an interpretation of what this migration pact actually means. God help us, in an election year, if people try to play the immigration card and get a few cheap, racist votes for themselves when trying to tell lies about this migration pact. Are we going to separately legislate for each one? Does the Minister plan to have large public information campaign so that people cannot misinform?

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