Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Undocumented Migrants Living in Ireland: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
2:30 pm
Ms Helen Lowry:
That is why we consider this presentation very important. The Justice for the Undocumented group now has 900 members. It was started with six people, including the man to my left and the woman to my right. There were four other individuals. I remember it well. Given that it has 900 members now, we believe this work is very important. It is a great deal more expensive to deport somebody. Our job is to make this a problem. People are not causing trouble here. They are infringing on immigration policy and it is an administrative infringement. The other issue is that we believe this is a good idea because it makes more sense economically. From a Civil Service perspective, many would be very aware that this is a reality, but doing something about it requires political will, as Edel said.
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