Seanad debates
Thursday, 19 December 2002
Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
That apart, it is important that we recognise that there is nothing unusual in this legislation. An attempt has been made to characterise it in some way as designed to infringe people's rights. The suggestion was that some people's lives would be put in peril. I cannot see how this can be the case because all of the states where transit takes place to this State are ones where a person's right to invoke asylum can be freely exercised. Therefore, I cannot see where the difficulty arises.
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