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Seanad: Address by Ms Mary Banotti, MEP. (13 Nov 2003): MEPs do their work primarily in committee, which is where the real political debate takes place, particularly on major issues affecting all member states such as immigration and asylum. I confess that immigration was minimal when we first started to consider legislation on issues of this nature, to the extent that if one saw a foreigner who was not on holiday, one wondered what he or she was...
Seanad: Address by Ms Mary Banotti, MEP. (13 Nov 2003): The impact of immigration and asylum differs among the member states. Austria, for example, a small country which borders the accession countries is the first stop for a significant number of people entering the European Union from eastern Europe. For this reason, it is a massive political issue in the country and, given the numbers involved, an important economic question also.
Seanad: Address by Ms Mary Banotti, MEP. (13 Nov 2003): ...committee of which there are 19. Many MEPs are supplementary members of various other committees. For example, I am a member of the Civil Liberties Committee which deals with issues such as immigration and asylum. I am also a member of the Petitions Committee. It was as a member of that committee that I was invited to take on the role of President's mediator on matters relating to abducted...

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