Seanad debates
Tuesday, 4 February 2003
Immigration Bill 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.
If I was to give people a month to come up with an excuse, I would be making the system unworkable. I made the point on Committee Stage that this is a serious business. Some €300 million is spent in various forms every year as a result of asylum seeking in Ireland. There are moral issues here, but morality does not go all one way. Some people believe they are girded with the garments of rectitude because they publicly stand for the rights of asylum seekers. However, there are other people who are not getting the resources to which I refer because they are being invested in this area.
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