David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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We have been engaging with the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland on this issue and it has amended some of its original suggestions on that basis. We will continue to engage with it. If there are undocumented people of whom colleagues are aware, they can draw our attention to them on a case-by-case basis and we will examine them. If members have the names of anyone in Calais, which the Deputy spoke about, who wish to come here they should pass them on to us and we will investigate them. The issue now is to locate and identify some of the people who want to come here.

I refer to minors. The motion in the Dáil related to minors and if one brings in a person aged over 18, he or she is an adult. There are also definitions about what is an unaccompanied minor. In some places it means being without a mother or father, but in other places it means without any family member. A minor with a grandmother, older sibling or aunt might not be classified as unaccompanied, as such, so issues arise in that regard also. I welcome the suggestions made by the Deputy and the suggestions of other members present.