The Taoiseach has dismissed figures cited by Noel Grealish relating to the amount of money sent to Nigeria each year as inaccurate and exaggerated. Mr Grealish, who was previously criticised for claiming African migrants are "spongers", cited figures from the World Bank when asking the Taoiseach if proper controls and monitoring of these remittances are in place. I understand that the World Bank remittance figures relating to Nigeria are estimates provided to the World Bank by the Nigerian authorities and are not actual data. Calling on the Dáil record to be corrected, Solidarity-PBP TD Ruth Coppinger said Mr Grealish had exaggerated the real figure over 31 times. Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy also hit out at Mr Grealish and said he didn't like what he was inferring or insinuating with the remarks.

Source: Irish Examiner November 13, 2019 17:36 UTC