Comment: Very interesting comments coming from Fianna Fáil. When Michael Collins was fighting for Ireland, Eamon de Valera was meeting the International Financiers in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. His answer to later problems was for the Irish to emigrate. Others were interned or executed.
In recent times, Dick Roche stated ''there is no reason to believe that large numbers of workers will wish to come'' (Irish Times letters 12-7-02).
It’s laughable to believe the Tory party are anti-immigration. What we are seeing in Ireland are the fruits of mass-immigration? It’s laughable if we believe Fianna Fail are anti-immigration.
Immigration has been an elephant in the room and now is being discussed openly.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/coalition-is-anti-irish-says-councillor-226487.html
Coalition is anti-Irish, says councillor
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
A senior Fianna Fáil councillor said Irish people seeking social housing were being told to “go home to mammy” while non-nationals were getting housed as soon as they “breezed” into the country.
By Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent
Kevin Sheahan made the remark at a Limerick County Council meeting yesterday as he called on the Government to take a lead from the Conservative party’s anti-immigration policies in the UK.
Fine Gael and Labour members stormed out of the monthly council meeting when Mr Sheahan persisted in his demand for a notice of motion to be sent to the Department of the Environment calling for an Irish-first policy to be drawn up for social housing.
He accused Fine Gael and Labour of being anti-Irish and asked: “What about Michael from Shanagolden who needs a house?”
He said: “We only do it when the English government do it. The English government have now said if you are a non-national you have to be in the country five years. But we house non-nationals straight away.
“It will become a serious mistake if it does not become a crisis. We should put our people first and I say that unapologetically.
“We should put our own people first. Our economy is tight and we can ill-afford to do anything else. We need the policy along the lines passed in England.”
A young mother who came to him for help was told to “go home to mammy” with her baby when she sought social housing, Mr Sheahan claimed. They ended up in a box room in the small family home.
Mr Sheahan demanded the department adopt a more Christian attitude to Irish people seeking to be housed.
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