Mr. Nick Henderson:

It seems draconian. In all honesty, it should not take a pact of this nature to achieve something that is pretty basic. It may sound trite but something so basic should not necessarily be a cause for celebration.

As to the idea that we are better together, I can understand that and we have spoken about that. I suppose Ireland would remain within some sort of orbit of the European Union asylum law, if not within that inner orbit. We are looking at this through the lens of our missions as charities supporting refugees seeking protection and when we do the positive and negative, there is more that we are concerned about in these regulations than we are welcoming.