Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

Furthermore, Ireland would send out a message to the world that it is assuming an obligation to provide education to those who have been found not to be in need of international protection and have otherwise no right to be in the State.

A further implication of allowing this person to stay is that, as a matter of policy, a person who has lost one parent and who is not living with the other parent——

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