The EU migration pact is bad for Ireland. It outsources decisions on cost and numbers coming here, and locks us into those decisions.
Nearly 60,000 people applied for asylum in Ireland in the last four years. In the years before that, there were about 2,000 to 3,000 applications per year.
It does nothing about the 80% of people coming here from Britain through the north. There is nothing in the pact to address this flaw.
It will do nothing to prevent large numbers of migrants entering during a housing crisis and a shortage of school places, hospital beds and prison overcrowding.
Aontú believes in a stricter system, a compassionate one that still allows people to enter the country if they are fleeing a war or violence. But there’s no doubt that there’s too much pressure on public services, particularly in relation to the supply of houses.
It leaves us legally bound to EU migration quotas, while unprotected from migrant flow from the UK.
We, the undersigned, oppose the implementation of this Pact in Ireland by the Irish government.