‘The people should decide’ – TD calls for referendum on EU Asylum Pact

“The people should decide” on whether Ireland opts into the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact, according to an Independent TD.

“I think the question is whether this is a matter for the Government to decide or put to the people to decide, or at least through the houses of Dáil Éireann,” she said. Verona Murphy is pictured at a Wexford by-election count in November 2019. Picture by: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie“We are obliged to provide primary education, social welfare benefits, and access to the courts for refugees and asylum seekers,” she said.

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