Seanad debates
Tuesday, 4 February 2003
Immigration Bill 2002: Report Stage.
That is as far as I can go to meet the point, otherwise I might as well have no carrier liability. As I said on Committee Stage, Ireland is the only state within the European Union which does not have carrier liability. That is not a choice which is even open to us because we are required by European law to introduce a system of carrier liability. We cannot introduce a system which has virtually no meaning. If the amendment was to succeed, this provision would cease to have any meaning and become just a licence for anybody to get on an aeroplane and come to Ireland. It would worsen the situation rather than improve it.
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