Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State cannot understand the perception. I was not the one who said it was on one specific issue. The Minister of State spoke about the system, the legal provisions and our humanitarian responses.

I support the Bill. I urge the Minister of State not to reject it and to allow it to go to Committee Stage. We can have the debate in committee and tease it out line-by-line if required to make it more usable if it does not fit the neat criteria that sometimes is required. At the end of the day we are talking about families. We are talking about trying to reunite human beings with each other to get the comfort that is required so they can build a new life in Ireland. That is what they are doing. They should do so but with whatever supports we can provide. It has been proven across the world that if one has family support in refugee cases, it makes it much easier to integrate and survive in a new country. The alternative is, as others have said, that after a number of years some people who arrive in Ireland, whether in a case such as this or a refugee case, want to go back to where they came from because of the welcome they got in Ireland.

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