Ivana Bacik: Leo Varadkar's immigration comments 'a new low'

Speaking at the launch of the Labour party's alternative budget, Ms Bacik said the comments by the former Fine Gael leader were 'deeply inappropriate'

Labour Leader Ivana Batik launching her party's Alternative Budget 2025 on Friday. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has condemned comments by Leo Varadkar on immigration as "a new low".

In an interview with US college Notre Dame's newspaper The Observer, the former Taoiseach said that immigration was rising at too fast a pace.