Our disadvantaged are the real refugees
But we are not as generous to our own needy.
Consider the intellectually and physically disabled in our country and the overburdened families who care for them.
In 2002, for example, we spent 340m assessing claims for refugee status, 90% of which were rejected.
In effect, some 300m was wasted on legal fees and support services money which was sorely needed to help the disadvantaged at home.
Why does it take so long and cost so much to identify the relatively few genuine refugees?
I wonder what the response of the Comptroller and Auditor General will be to this shameful waste of public funds by rubber-backed politicians and officials running scared before the feared 'racism' smear?
Is it not their duty to protect the interests of Irish society?
This monstrous waste has hardly been commented on publicly not by leader writers, opinion columnists or politicians, including the 'opposition'.
Why is this? Could it be that we place more value on the needs and rights of foreigners than on the needs of our disadvantaged here at home?
Liam Ó Géibheannaigh,
Áth an Ghainimh,
Co Átha Cliath.
