Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I, too, welcome the fact that we are having this discussion. I give credit to the Minister of State for at least enunciating the need to radically change the situation but I give most credit to the people in the asylum process who fought on the issue and demanded justice. However, before we throw bouquets at ourselves for the fact that we are discussing it, we must deliver. I hope we all agree on that.

I am pleased to hear the right to work is being openly discussed. However, I do not think there is much to discuss except that must be allowed to happen. Is an amnesty being discussed for those who have been incarcerated in a system that the Minister of State and everyone else have acknowledged is wrong?