Seanad debates

Thursday, 19 December 2002

Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

On the issue of the liability of carriers, will the Minister of State indicate how an asylum seeker could lawfully enter the State? What happens to somebody with a genuine case who is undocumented? Let us not pretend that all asylum seekers carry documents because they do not. Sometimes they destroy their documents, either to test or break the law. Many of the people who streamed out of Kosovo during the war had no ID cards because they had been destroyed by the Serbian army to make matters difficult for them. Are we saying that such people are immediately to be refused access to any vehicle travelling to Ireland?

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