When questioned about the specifics of how her party will allocate resources for its new immigration policy, Mary Lou McDonald, the head of Sinn Féin, responded, “I’m not the minister,” reports Breaking News.
Ms. McDonald denied in an RTÉ Radio interview that her party’s policy paper on changing the international protection system was the same as the government’s strategy.
She also disagreed with the assertion that local communities had already been consulted over proposed housing for asylum seekers, reports Breaking News.
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When asked how much the promise to increase the number of employees at the International Protection Office from 400 to 1,000 would cost, Ms. McDonald responded that it would not be too high.
“There is a costing for it, I don’t have it to hand, it is not enormous.”
When presenter Philip Boucher Hayes asked how “a thousand new civil servants is not an enormous cost”, Ms McDonald replied: “Are you actually interested in hearing the policy or simply nit-picking with me?” reports Breaking News.
“First of all, I have to say your tone with me in this interview is extremely rude. But be that as it may, the government may claim that this is their approach. It is something that they have failed to do. This was signposted five years ago by Catherine Day and they still haven’t done it,” reports Breaking News.
“I’m less interested – and I would have thought that as a journalist and a broadcaster, you would be far more inquisitive – around what the government is saying which you’re very happy to repeat ad nauseam, but actually what the government is doing, or in this case has failed to do,” reports Breaking News.
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