Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It does not change the fact that we need to be able process the applications quickly, make sure we can return people and have a solidarity mechanism. Irrespective of whether they are coming across the Border or through the airports, we still need to be able to access those solidarity or crisis regulations. If we do not sign up to them, we will not be able to apply them, irrespective of where people have come from. They look at our overall figures. They do not break it down by where people have come from immediately. They are not broken down in that way.