James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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I am the Chair and the Senator should let me speak. I am coming to her assistance and supporting her right to speak, but she must respect everyone else as well. I am actually coming to her aid here, if she listens carefully to what I am saying. The Senator may continue her contribution. The one thing I would say that might be helpful is if the Senator is talking about figures, like 5.1 million migrants, the Minister has suggested this includes legal migration, that is, people coming to work, etc., with visas and everything in proper order. It would be helpful to have an understanding, certainly from my perspective, of whether that is the figure and if it does embrace all those categories as the Minister suggested. The Senator might clarify for the benefit of the committee whether that is the. This information will feed into our deliberations and it would save us from having to come back at a future date to ask for clarification of the figure. The Senator may continue.