Ms Una Boyd:

In terms of the requests regarding the cross-Border checks, they are set out in the document produced with the North West Migrants Forum. The issue here is that the manner in which the Immigration Act 2004 is written inherently leads to racism and discrimination. As Mr. Holder said, there is no way that members of the Garda can get on a bus and exercise their powers under that legislation without making some sort of assumption or decision on who is exempt, who is not an EU citizen, who is not British or Irish. The legislation itself needs reform to prevent this continuing but in the interim, this is a practice being carried out by An Garda Síochána. We would like it to agree to stop this practice.

We have never had sight of any of the training, policy or guidance that is given to members of the Garda carrying out these checks in terms of how they are supposed to carry them out without racism or discrimination coming up.