Seanad debates

Wednesday, 29 January 2003

Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

That then carries with it the unmentionable factor of cost. How much would it cost to have a solicitor summoned to Dublin Airport at half past one in the morning to deal with one person who has come in on a flight? We cannot have a situation where there is just one lawyer who is a State employee. We would immediately be told that it would have to be a lawyer of choice quite independent of the whole procedure and presumably it would have to be somebody chosen from a panel. The implications of paying lawyers' fees to people to get up out of bed to explain a very basic interview to an asylum-seeker would, in my view, be equally frightening in economic terms. I am opposed to the proposal.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.