Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)

I agree with the Minister on that, and I accept that changes have been made to the number of people being brought in, etc. However, in scenarios and cases like that, should we not be looking at them differently? Eventually, with all the Minister's work, it will get to the point where all of these cases are being dealt with in a speedy way and we will not have this issue. However, I am referring to scenarios where there are families left waiting for three, four, five years or longer and there are kids involved.

I do not want to use the word "amnesty" because I agree with the Minister on that point. However, is it appropriate that we are sending people out of the State after they have been socialised here for that length of time?