Seanad debates

Thursday, 30 January 2003

Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

The Senator may be interested in the following figures. In terms of operations under the convention, 39 people were referred to this State by other states, 35 from the United Kingdom, one from Finland, two from Norway and one from the Netherlands. Some 64 people were referred outwards by this country under the convention in 2002, 48 to the United Kingdom, four to Belgium, one each to Spain and Germany, two each to the Netherlands and France, one to Greece and five to Austria. We are dealing with a small number of cases per annum and, in each case, I remind the Senator that it is not only Ireland that decides under the convention the case should be an outward one or, in the case of a foreign decision under the convention, accept that it should be an inward one. In every case there is effectively an examination by two states of the position before anything happens.

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