Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I fully support what the Minister said and I believe we should give it consideration. We need to remember that when one strips out the rhetoric and the bits and bobs, what we are actually talking about is safety for European citizens, including Irish citizens. The Schengen area is one of the great successes of the EU. I know we are not a member of the Schengen area because of the historical arrangement we have with the UK and neither country opted into it, but this is just a commonsense approach that any area of a similar nature would like to see in place so I fully support it.