Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 December 2002

Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage.

 

I am not dismissing the amendment because its drafting is slightly defective. I am saying that even if the drafting was right the idea is not right. The distinction is simply not one which ought to be made in our law. I ask the Senators to consider this. It applies to people coming in vehicles – we are talking about road vehicles because this is the distinction which has been drawn by the amendment – from outside the State into the State other than via the United Kingdom. This means, in effect, people travelling in any car ferry from France or Spain. The amendment is asking me to say that someone who somehow gets on to one of those ferries without being checked in the ordinary way and someone who carries him should not be subject to a sanction if the vehicle he is using is a private vehicle but should be subject to a sanction if it is a van, bus or lorry.

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