Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Libya is an example of how disastrous western intervention in other countries can be at times. Libya is an ungovernable country and the administration there has very little control over vast swathes of it. I am not sure, from the Minister's answer, whether the EU is moving towards a formal EU-Libya migration deal that will involve turning people away from EU countries and resettling them back in their country of origin, which is Libya in this instance? If we are not, that is fine. If we are, we need to know about it and we need to debate it and see the terms of it. That is what I really wanted to get to the nub of. We want to assist Libya and the Libyan people. The EU also wants to do that. Is that just a disguise for stemming the flow of refugees into Europe and southern Europe in particular? I want to hear definitively today if there is a deal on the table. If there is not, that is fine. If there is, do we support it or not?

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