Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

Of the 3,270 women aged over 16 who applied for asylum last year, 1,893, or 58%, were pregnant. At the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin there were 1,951 births to immigrants last year. Almost 14% came to the hospital between one and ten days before giving birth while about 13% arrived in labour. That strongly indicates that at least 27% of immigrant births, or about 500, were passport tourism cases. Those are the words of the researchers employed by The Sunday Times, not mine.

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