Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Undocumented Migrants: Immigration Control Platform

2:30 pm

Ms Áine Ní Chonaill:

I have not the slightest intention of speaking about my personal or family relationships and should not be asked about them. I would like to take up the point that Deputy McFadden made about how terrible it is to call people illegals. We have the authority of the Irish Statute Book behind us in this. There is on our Statute Book a law which is the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000. The Statute Book by the way does not recognise that the other terminology, illegal immigrants, is the proper terminology. I hope I have answered Deputy McFadden.