Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

The Deputy contradicts me but he is on the wrong ground. Of the family groups who seek asylum here and all of whose children are afforded education by the State, approximately 50% would be immune from deportation for up to ten years were I to accept the Deputy's point that all questions of deportation should be deferred until all the family's children have completed the two educational cycles. I am not willing to do this.

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