Matthew O'Toole

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264 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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The Claire Byrne Show · Belfast riots continue for second night - latest updates · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Are there schemes?

I mean, the return scheme was talked about by your previous speaker.

But what I'm not going to do is simply sell the pass on something that is critically important to how our island functions, simply because the politics in England...

has moved in a particular direction.

Yes, I do want migration asylum systems to work better.

They have to work better.

This would all have been easier if the UK had not left the EU and therefore left some of the structures of migration cooperation.

Well, we're 10 years on now.

We are 10 years on, Claire.

But that's the point.

We had to work really hard to protect an open border on this island.

So what I'm not going to do as a politician, and Brexit is part of the reason I'm in politics, is simply sell the pass on the open border from the island.

We have to stand up for that.

Yes, we have to understand.

We also have to be clear about...

This awful individual who people rightly want to understand how he got here.

Was he monitored?

How was he monitored?

How is this allowed to happen?

Those are all important and legitimate questions to ask.

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