Eoin O'Riordan

in the European Parliament.

So I apologise for that.

I should have made different arrangements.

But look, language such as overwhelms.

The Prime Minister made a claim last year that people were in emergency accommodation with no one to be there, which was a factually incorrect statement.

And the chair of the Dublin House of the Executive... Yes, that's nothing to do with what I said.

Let me finish.

Let me finish.

So just let me finish, because that's the way democracy works, even though the EPP possibly don't understand that anymore.

So he had a situation where the Tarnashe made a factually incorrect statement.

He tried to give the impression that people were using homeless services from abroad that weren't entitled to them, which is wrong.

So what Finnegate are consistently trying to do is to link, in the Irish context, homelessness versus immigration.

And now they're trying to use phraseology such as overwhelmed.

And now I'm being told that 50% of the Irish people

are most concerned about immigration.

And this is classic because rather than talking about homelessness or housing or cost of living or all of the other pressures in the Irish system that are because of lack of investment or lack of management from the government, what we are trying to, what Fine Gael are clearly now trying to say is that we are being overwhelmed by migrants.

And that's the reason.

And this is the same country.

No, that's exactly the use of words that you used.

You can't make away from that.