Seanad debates

Tuesday, 4 February 2003

Immigration Bill 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.

 

I do not know what the Senator has in mind but she referred to a person being the subject of a medical accident. That would not of course amount to a lack of co-operation. To co-operate means to do so in the sense that one can. Lack of co-operation is surely based on some degree of default on the part of the applicant. One cannot call it failure to co-operate if the person could not co-operate. Any fair-minded judge or administrator, if it came to that, could only operate in a constitutional interpretation of the section and would have to ignore something which was so insignificant as not to warrant the application of the section. I am opposed to the amendment.

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