Colm Brophy
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347 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Jun
Colm Brophy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The first is that over the last 12 months, our numbers have come down.
So we now had 13,000, say, in the last year, compared to 20 something thousand in the previous couple of years.
So we've made real changes in the overall numbers coming in.
And now what we have in place is a process that will actually enable us to deal with everybody in what will be a fair manner, but a very firm and effective way and a very fast way, which will make a huge difference in terms of saving money to the state.
Well, first of all, she's speaking for herself and nobody else.
That's the first thing.
She makes that quite clear.
She doesn't even have, as she has it clear in the article, her own group's imprimatur on that.
It's a personal opinion of hers.
I don't think it will be shared by quite a few members of her group, and I don't think it's shared by quite a number of MEPs in the European Parliament, right across all the political groupings.
There are different opinions on return hubs.
The Irish government has made it very clear that this is something we are willing to work with and look and explore what the options that could become available are.
There is no firm option yet.
We would be absolutely, as a government, insistent that any return hub type system would have to be fully compliant with international law and human rights.
and respect the dignity of migrants.
But it is a situation that European states both individually and collectively are looking at how to effectively develop return hubs as part of the process.
And I would disagree respectfully with her in terms of I actually do think that this is something that needs to at least be looked at rather than knocked on the head before it's even discussed.
Well, I think it's very important because again, there's a real attempt at misinformation around this.
Ireland has a common travel area with the United Kingdom.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a person on the island of Ireland that didn't want a common travel area.
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