Cónal Thomas
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418 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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You have Mary Lou MacDonald.
So, well, you had Pascal Donoghue, should I say.
So that's something that's featuring here, I suppose.
And it will be a very difficult task for Fianna Fáil to ever remedy this ailment that they're suffering in Dublin Central.
And the man that works in admissions in the Madder Hospital was not able to cure them this time.
Minister, I mean, I suppose we've had two political figures in the last week.
We've had former Taoiseach and Gerry Hutch, a candidate in Dublin Central, both raise immigration in that area.
It is obviously a pronounced problem in Dublin Central, in that area we have an over-concentration, and we've seen these controversies around IPAS centres and stuff.
I mean, so does it rankle, do you think, with the Irish public, that €1 billion spend on IPAS centres a year?
As you lead into what you're designing now, which is effectively a new migration strategy that will dictate...
policy for the next 10 years.
And your department recently confirmed, in fact, though, to the PAC that the state is being sued by private commercial providers.
I believe in five cases, two of them settled.
And as we move towards, say, unwinding the Ukrainian supports, are you anticipating more cases, more legal cases against the state from commercial operators?
Explain to me just for a minute before we get on to the Ukrainians, though, because
You're designing the migration strategy, obviously, to come into effect alongside or roughly around the same time, I suppose, the EU-wide asylum pact, which is kind of an overhaul, let's face it.
Now, some things that have been mooted within that pact are quite controversial.
So can you just explain to our listeners around what you might call these proposed detention centres to hold people who might be here legally?
Are we going to see them and where are they going to be?
Just on that, Assistant Minister, can you clarify a little bit what those payments might look like?
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