Niall Boylan
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Let Niall finish and then I want to bring Alan in and then you can come back.
Well, we reduced it from 800 down to 400 now, I think it is.
I think it went down to six to four and then it'll be gone in the next year.
But if a Ukrainian person finds themselves in a situation where they don't have a job and they do have a high unemployment rate in Ireland, which is surprising after four years, by the way, it's between 30 and 40 percent, which is a high unemployment rate.
There's a lot of single mothers as well.
But that's leaving aside those not available to work, those over the age of 65, et cetera, et cetera.
But the point is, if they can't get a job, the same support should be there.
They're there for Irish people, but not extra supports.
But there are Irish single parents with small children.
People confuse the two of those, I'm not having a go, but people confuse the two of those.
When we talk about immigration, you have to talk about people who come here legitimately to a visa system and work through agencies and health care, whatever it happens to be, and are part of our economy and very welcome to be part of our economy.
And I'm not just talking about Ukrainians, by the way.
Are we suggesting 80% of the population voted the far right?