James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Taoiseach's initiative to broaden our base to broker a deal on immigration in the USA for the more than 50,000 undocumented Irish in the United States. This Government and this party supported the Kennedy-McCain immigration reform Bill in the US. I would like to know the status of that Bill. I pay tribute to the many Irish-American lobby groups in the United States which also supported the Bill. We have a duty of care towards our citizens in the United States as in every other part of the world.

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