David Quinn

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

But they're caught now between their working class vote and this particular middle class vote they're trying to appeal to.

But the other left-wing parties are more niche.

It's one of the biggest in Europe.

I mean, it's 22% of the population are born of it.

Sorry, David.

David?

So, I mean, it'd be very, very strange if we had a situation, as we do, where 22% of people in the country were born overseas and that wasn't an issue.

It'd be a really, really strange thing.

And it would be even stranger if it wasn't an issue in areas particularly affected by this, which is chiefly working class areas.

I mean, if you go into middle class areas, middle class areas of Ireland look like Ireland did 50 years ago.

I mean, they are still...

very much kind of white areas because the people coming into the country can't afford to live in them.

So where can they afford to live?

They live generally in the poorer areas, generally speaking.

I mean, that is true.

And those people in those poorer areas are worried.

Are they competing with us for social housing, etc.?

So it would be extremely strange if it wasn't coming up as an issue.

And it would also be very strange, and it would be very unhealthy, by the way, if we weren't having a debate about things like capacity.

You know, what is it doing to infrastructure?

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