Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are actually engaging in an initial stage which, as the Deputy fully knows, will come back afterwards to the House for full discussion, if we choose to opt in at the end.

While the numbers coming to Ireland from Kazakhstan are low, and I accept the point made about applications for international protection in 2022 and the five applications in 2024, opting into the Council's decision to open negotiations on readmission with Kazakhstan would further demonstrate Ireland's commitment, which is important, to a common EU-wide solution to migration that is already evidenced by our opting in to the EU asylum and migration pact. I make that point in respect of Deputy Carthy's comment about outsourcing to the EU. I know his party does not really like the EU, regardless of what lines it throws out from time to time, but we are the EU. Ireland is part of the European Union.

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