Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is right and I ask her not to shake her head. We know that it is right and I cannot understand how these people are let onto the plane in the first place. That is where the Government needs to have people and officials, immigration and custom officials, to ensure that these people do not get onto the plane. I do not really think it is the responsibility of the carriers too much at all because it should be our officials who are monitoring these people getting onto the planes and if they do not have the proper documentation as to where they are getting on and where they are heading for Ireland, this should be stopped forthwith. This is what I am asking the Minister to do. It is a bit of nonsense to think we are going to get satisfaction out of the air carriers when people land here with no documents to look at at all. We then blame the carriers, fine them and increase the penalties. That is absolute rubbish. The Government cannot sell that to me and I do not think it can sell that to the public at large out there. Like I said, I was held up at Shannon Airport and these people should be held up at whatever airport they travelling from to come here if their flights are directly to here. I wonder what officials or capacity the Government has to monitor these people and to stop them getting on the planes in the first place.

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