Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality

11:00 am

Mr. William O'Dwyer:

I will add to that. We work closely with third level colleges on encouraging students to come to Ireland. We facilitate that as much as we can, consistent with our immigration requirements. It has worked well and we have good relations.

Third country nationals and how we treat them were mentioned. It is important to emphasise that we are outside the Schengen border arrangements, which will likely continue. We have that flexibility to increase our co-operation with the UK while, as the Secretary General stated, remaining consistent with our requirements in terms of free movement.

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