Mr. Brian O'Dwyer:

No matter who he or she might be, he or she will not be able to take back the Executive action and even if he or she were to do so, we are assured that those who had applied for it would not be put on some priority list for deportation.

I note in reply to Senator Colm Burke one thing that I should have mentioned which I take the opportunity to mention now. Unfortunately, when these programmes come down, there are numbers of people who will seek to take advantage of our immigrant population and advertise, "I can get you a green card" which, of course, they cannot. They will assert that they can get someone citizenship and that all that person need do is come up with a payment of $5,000 or $10,000. We have worked very hard with the Attorney General of the State of New York and the prosecutors in the Governor's office to clamp down on this. There is actually a new law in New York that makes it a felony to misrepresent immigrant services. What Members of the Oireachtas can do in their constituent services is to tell people to come to the centres. We are providing free advice and regular educational programmes for our people. We have had three already as this rolls out which were well attended.

We are now on a dual track, one part of which involves advocacy in the Executive branch to ensure that whatever we can get done will be done to the maximum extent possible when the regulations come out. At the same time, we are engaging in information centres to ensure the full story gets out as to who will be eligible, how they will be eligible and how they can apply. A lot of this has yet to be determined. Pub talk can be very destructive in an immigrant population. I am aware that every Member of the Oireachtas receives regular telephone calls from parents or siblings asking what this means and what they should do. The important thing to say is that the Irish Government - I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jimmy Deenihan, and the Government - has provided these centres with resources to take care of the population. It is important that people get the right answers by going to the centres and they should be told to listen to nobody else. It is when they listen to others that they get into terrible trouble.