Alan Barrett
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502 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
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And say, for example, when we grant people asylum status or refugee status, that's the point then at which they're sort of supposed to, if I can use the phrase, mainstream and integrate and do all the other things that other people have to do.
So, like, immigration is still an enormously complicated and complex issue.
And I think people are responding in different ways to different things.
I don't want to be overly harsh about it, OK?
But I think, I mean, you often hear the phrase the social contract, OK?
And this is the notion about, you know, how governments and people behave towards one another.
I think it would have been reasonable to say, for example, maybe, you know, by the fifth anniversary of the war in Ukraine, that I think with all of these sort of things, if you give people enough notice that you sort of say, look, we have supported you to the best of our ability for, you know, over a long period of time.
But they've done that, haven't they?
Well, I think, again, there is a sense in which this is not happening.
They reduced it already and said it would be further reduced.
No, of course they didn't.
That was part of our initial generosity.
But I mean, just in terms of the parallel treatment, I mean, we talk partly about parallel treatment between Irish people and Ukrainians.
But there's also the sense that if you, like if you arrived here from a different country and you went through the asylum process and you were granted asylum at a certain point, you have certain rights and responsibilities then, you know, at that point.
And that was a different case.
Agreed.
But I think over time, there's an emerging feeling that, you know, the differential treatments or whatever like that are perfectly reasonable over a period of time.
But again, over a period of times, there's an expectation that you integrate the same thing.
There seems to be general agreement here.
Yeah, so as ever, it's an absolutely fascinating poll.
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