John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)

The system does not know exactly who is doing what. I have a random question for the Minister of State on the collection of data. If I asked him how many Romanians are here and, of those, how many are legally here and how many are illegally here, would he be able to tell me? He is the Minister with responsibility for European affairs. I ask the civil servants not to prompt him. Irrespective of whom one speaks to in Government, whether that person is at the top or at the bottom, invariably the person does not have a clue as to the number of immigrants here.

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