Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I would hope the Minister will do this. The least we can do is meet our citizens abroad, even if we cannot do anything else. I ask that the Minister, with the Taoiseach, would make the case on St. Patrick's Day for Irish people who are illegally in America. Australia was treated as a special case, and that country received 10,500 visas last year. We want 30,000 or 40,000 for our Irish illegals.

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