Video footage has now also emerged on social media of Mr Grealish's comments at the meeting
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has called on Galway West TD Noel Grealish to withdraw remarks he made about asylum seekers earlier this week.
In the video Mr Grealish says: "Now I have worked with one or two Syrian families. These were genuine refugees who were persecuted in their homeland, because they were Christian, by ISIS. They were housed around Galway, put in houses, they were accepted by communities. — Gearóid Murphy September 12, 2019 "I can guarantee you it is not the persecuted Christians and Syrians that are coming here. It is the economic refugees that is coming in from Africa that are trying to get across the Mediterranean and ended up in Europe and ended in up Ireland and ended up in Oughterard.
"I want politicians here to give the same commitment here tonight that we will work to ensure that this does not happen. It will destroy the fabric of Oughterard. Thank you."
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