Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

——the school-going children of non-national parents who are facing deportation while they remain in full-time education, and not to deport the young people who come to Ireland as unaccompanied minors while they also remain in full-time education.

I ask Deputies to consider what would be the consequences of such a policy. In effect, no person in any form of education and, by implication, none of their family members could ever be deported from the State.

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