Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is well known that one could write a script on any issue regarding migration or asylum in which the Department of Justice and Equality would come in and talk about push and pull. Everyone and his or her mother would come to Ireland if we were to change X, Y, or Z - be that the right to work or family reunification - and all these vague allusions are made to the pull factors. We need to stay away from pull factors. It has been well noted and we are more than familiar with the general outline of the objections the Department of Justice and Equality gives to virtually any adjustments in this regard.

Would the witnesses agree that the Department's argument about the number applying for family reunification being unquantifiable is undermined by the fact that there is a more expansive definition of reunification categories under IHAP, which covers the ten most significant sources of refugees?