Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The US Administration has been briefed on the legacy issue. I was in Washington four weeks ago and I met the national security advisor, Mr. Jake Sullivan, and a number of key officials in the State Department with regard to the European and Irish question. I briefed them on our concerns around the legacy Bill, our opposition to the legacy Bill especially in the context of it not being in compliance with Article 2, and the general degree to which - in our view - it undermines human rights more generally but also human rights as a component of the Good Friday Agreement.

President Biden is committed to the issue of the undocumented.

The Deputy knows and I know that the real action has to be within Congress, in the House of Representatives and the Senate. We have been meeting with the Friends of Ireland, under the chairmanship of Mr. Richard Neal, who I met this week and with whom I participated in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Holyoke which is his area. We discussed the issue then. I also met people who are undocumented and it is a huge concern. Again, they need to reach a consensus in Congress. They are working to see if they can do something on the E3 visa, which they were close to doing previously.

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