Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As all of us in this House know, the difficulties encountered by so many Irish emigrants in the United States, who are commonly referred to as the "undocumented Irish", represent an issue of grave concern to the individual emigrants themselves, their families in the US and their families here in Ireland. We are all aware of the difficulties faced by those emigrants when they need to travel home for a family occasion, such as celebratory event or an event necessitated by a family bereavement. Can the Minister give us an update on the progress, if any, that is being made to regularise the position of the more than 10,000 undocumented Irish in the US of whom we are aware?

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