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Sat 09 Sep 2008FG playing race card on migrant issue, says Lenihan
MINISTER OF State for Integration Conor Lenihan has accused Fine Gael of seeking to play the "race card" in Irish politics and said this appeared to be part of a co-ordinated effort on migrant issues by the party.
His remarks followed a query from Fine Gael enterprise and employment spokesman Leo Varadkar last Thursday as to the feasibility of foreign unemployed workers in Ireland being given a lump-sum benefit payment if they agreed to return home.
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