Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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This interaction has been very interesting and all of us appreciate our guests' inputs and contributions. It has been a very good discussion. I have one question arising from what we have been speaking about, relating to the difficulties for those who remain undocumented. All of us welcomed the Minister for Justice's announcement of the regularisation scheme, an important and positive step forward, but are we still going to see significant gaps? I have been working with my Labour Party colleagues on a born here, belong here campaign to try to get a better, more generous pathway to citizenship, specifically for children born in Ireland whose parents are not Irish citizens, an issue that will be addressed for many children by the scheme. In our guests' experience, do they foresee there will be many significant gaps? Will many people still be excluded?