Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 December 2002

Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage.

 

In Senator Tuffy's amendment we are being asked to delete the word "persons" and insert "non-nationals" and, therefore, to bring about a situation where it would not be an offence for a carrier to leave people on a ship at a later stage or to let them wander through whatever channel they wanted as long as they were Irish nationals. If that were the case and one attempted to prove the matter afterwards in a criminal court, one would have to prove that people found concealed on a ship were non-nationals in order to bring home the offence. If they fled across the fields, or whatever, one would not be in a position to prove the case at all.

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