Mr. Emmanuel Crabit:

The immigration issue is something which is to a certain extent covered by EU legislation. We have the Return Directive. We have a number of instruments which regulate immigration, for example, the asylum acquis. For these type of issues, of course, the EU system applies. A member states must comply with all of these EU acquisin regard to immigration, visas and asylum.
As regards the issues of hate speech, racist, zenophobia, etc., to which Deputy Durkan refers, these are an EU matter. We have this framework decision which obliges member states to criminalise hate speech based on race and zenophobic grounds. There is EU law and it is an EU law matter. It is not an issue of rule-of-law crisis.