Mr. Fiachra ? Luain:

Yes. Ireland has published its Latin American strategy. We are beginning to look at what could be done, but the Irish Embassy, to my knowledge, is not really involved in the application process. Under the Canadian model, a person applies well ahead of time and makes sure everything is published. Whatever Canada needs to know about someone, it can find out before they arrive. Your PPS number and your IRP card are there; you are not waiting for three or four months for one thing or another - and if it is not one thing, it is the other. It is very frustrating. We are doing this to people whose primary purpose is to learn English. They do not have fluency yet. We are making it more difficult for the people who are less able to negotiate and navigate. That is why they are quickly learning that in Ireland it is a wink-wink, nudge-nudge culture, that the rules are not really the rules and that you should just get away with it in any way you can.

This only favours private interests. We need to meet people where they are.