Comment: That's one way to do it: just stop cooperating with the loons in the capitals...
A meeting of Mayo County Council has unanimously passed a motion calling on its staff to "immediately" cease all cooperation with Department of Integration, until an agreed strategy is in place regarding the housing of migrants seeking asylum in the county.
At yesterday's meeting of the Council a cross-party motion which stated that 'all co-operation ceases immediately, between the staff of Mayo County Council and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth of Ireland, until such time as an agreed strategy is put in place to properly co-ordinate the provision of additional services for the communities hosting refugees and international protection applicants', was approved.
Proposing the motion, Castlebar-based Independent councillor, Michael Kilcoyne, said councillors had no say in who arrives in Mayo or where they stayed - and claimed that those claiming asylum were being treated better than Irish people. It was time Irish people started to come first, he said, according to Mayo News.
Comment: And now a second county council is thinking about doing likewise: