There is much concern about asylum seekers in most communities with people phoning local radio and the issue is quite often exaggerated out of all proportion. The immigrants who work in our hospitals and come from non-European countries must often feel confused and disappointed by some of the rhetoric which emerges in the criticisms of asylum seekers. Our health system could collapse if these people decided to go back to India, Pakistan and other countries. The rhetoric used is wrong, but there is a background against which it is difficult for people to accept that more people will come into this country. A survey was recently carried out in Hungary and nobody indicated that they wanted to come to Ireland once membership was extended to them. It is logical that people in those countries will go to their hinterlands, as happened in Germany with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Germany's eyes have turned in a different direction because of the countries that are contiguous with it.