Mr. Neil Bruton:

Very quickly on regularisation, the granting of stable and secure status is a key part of integration and that does not only happen in the asylum process. I agree that the regularisation scheme from last year and going into this year has been a big success. I just met with people today who benefited from the scheme and heard about how their lives have been transformed because of it through better work, safety, living without fear and all of that. There is the possibility of an ongoing system. We would certainly call for an ongoing system of regularisation to be introduced here in Ireland. It could use the same criteria as the scheme but not have it open for six months. It could be done on an ongoing basis so there would be smaller numbers regularised on an ongoing basis. That way, there would not be this build-up of an undocumented population with people living long-term undocumented and all the difficulties that brings. Other countries already do that, like France, Portugal and Spain, so we could certainly do that here.