Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

In the 1990s, 48,000 US visas were granted under the Morrison scheme and the Taoiseach was busy in Washington last week attempting to regularise the positions of thousands more Irish emigrants. A double standard appears to operate.

I call on the Minister to allow the young man in question and others like him to return to Ireland to sit their leaving certificate examination. Among them is Portia Osadiede, a 19 year old who lived in Dún Laoghaire.

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