Ms Edel McGinley:

It has not been borne out in research that the introduction of regularisation is a pull factor. Regularisation is, in fact, a pragmatic and fair response to a situation which has emerged over a long period of time. In general terms, the drivers of migration are economic and family factors. People move because of their economic needs and because they have family in the state already. There is one example of regularisation as a pull factor. This is along the border in the United States and is the only research which looks at the potential of regularisation. It is a very specific place and does not correlate to an island. There is, therefore, no relevant research that bolsters the pull-factor argument.