Seanad debates
Tuesday, 4 February 2003
Immigration Bill 2002: Report Stage.
This Bill has a much lesser aim – simply to create an incentive for those in charge of those travelling into the State in vehicles that they do not have on board people who should not be on board and that they check the documentation of those they know are on board. It will not be an additional imposition for somebody driving a jeep on to the ferry at Cherbourg with four golfing buddies, to take a practical example, because the ferry company will check them out anyway. If somebody is rolled up in a sleeping bag at the back of a vehicle, if somebody gets on to a vehicle in breach of the carrier's duty of care or if there is a container load of people at the back of a vehicle, the person driving the vehicle will commit an offence if they do not take reasonable care to ensure their vehicle is not being used for this purpose.
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