Ms Áine Ní Chonaill:

If I might come in, the Americans have absolutely no interest in whether we legalise Pakistanis, Nigerians or Chinese. Obviously, the reciprocity there would be that if they legalised our illegal immigrants we would have to legalise the small number of American illegal immigrants.

I would like to take up this idea one hears about the hypocrisy of the Government. Quite frankly, it is rather infantile to accuse the Government of hypocrisy in the sense that it is surely rather puerile and ridiculous to expect that a Government will----