Limerick Mayor calls for deportation of EU nationals

[SilverLining]

On Newstalk's Lunchtime

Limerick Mayor calls for deportation of EU nationals

The Mayor of Limerick has provoked outrage by calling for unemployed EU nationals in Ireland to be deported.

Councillor Kevin Kiely says anyone living here who ‘can’t afford to pay for themselves’ should be sent home after three months.

Mayor Kiely is denying accusations that his comments amount to racism – but they have sparked calls for his resignation with local Labour MEP Alan Kelly slamming them as ‘outrageous’.

This man is a member of Fine Gael. Is this now the party's view ?

[odie1kanobe]

Rest of Ireland calls for Limerick to be deported as crime stats would drop massively.

[USER1234]

I would suggest his party quickly drop him as the nut he is!!!!

[DaBrow]

I would suggest his party quickly drop him as the nut he is!!!!

Why?

Because he is being rational and public on how it is absurd we should be looking after Foreign Nationals when they are not Asylum Seekers and have a safe homeland to return to?

We have over 300,000 Irish People unemployed and they have to wait several months now before they can claim the dole..... the one that will be cut next month?

[Sync]

Don't think the comments are racist really. They're obviously asking for something that's illegal and he needs to get dumped from the FG party, but not racist.

[KingKane]

Why?

Because he is being rational and public on how it is absurd we should be looking after Foreign Nationals when they are not Asylum Seekers and have a safe homeland to return to?

We have over 300,000 Irish People unemployed and they have to wait several months now before they can claim the dole..... the one that will be cut next month?

Will they get a refund of their PRSI?

[redhead101]

Why?

Well for one thing it would be completely illegal.

I don't think people from say Derry would take too kindly to being told they could no longer live in Donegal.

[ang]

Liam Galvin FG Limerick County Councillor, also called for people to be sent back home, a few months back. FG need to state where they stand on this issue. I thoght it was a bit rich coming from Liam, considering Kostal, a German owned family run business, is part of his constituency, he himself used to work for them. So do we send these companies back home with them.?


Link Here:-


http://www.limerickleader.ie/west-li...ern.5301781.jp

[williewatch]

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/Mayor … 5814604.jp

Mayor of Limerick: "Send home jobless nationals"

Mayor Kevin Kiely


Published Date: 11 November 2009

THE Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Kevin Kiely, has called for the deportation of EU-nationals who have failed to secure employment since their arrival here.
"I'm calling for anybody who is living in the State and who can't afford to pay for themselves to be deported after three months. We are borrowing €400 million per week to maintain our own residents and we can't afford it," the outspoken politician said this Wednesday.

"During the good times it was grand but we can't afford the current situation unless the EU is willing to step in and pay for non-nationals," he said

The president of the Irish-Polish Cultural and Business Association, Pat O'Sullivan, has called on the Mayor to withdraw his comments. "I am shocked, I am taken aback by those comments and it is shocking and dangerous talk," he said.

"EU nationals have a legal right to be here and calling for them to be deported shows an extraordinary lack of understanding of our place in Europe and how the world views us as a people," he added.

Mayor Kiely has denied his comments amount to racism.

"I'm not racist but it is very simple, we can't continue to borrow €400 million a week and the Government has to pull a halt and say enough is enough unless the EU intervenes and pays some sort of a subvention," he insisted.

[euroboy]

EU citizens cannot be deported due to economic grounds, however they have NO RIGHT to residency here after 3 months unless they can prove they won't be a burden to the social welfare system.

The so-called free movement of people that we all love and adore only applies in its freeist form for stays up to 3 months, anything after that, the directive on the rght to reside and move around within the EU provides for restrictions on free movement.