Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 4, after line 46, to insert the following:

"(4) This section shall not apply to an alleged contravention by a person who arrives in the State having a well-founded fear of persecution in his or her country of nationality, or (in the case of a Stateless person) habitual residence.".

The Bill should not be a measure which will prevent people entitled to asylum coming to this State at risk to their lives and force them into alternative arrangements which are dangerous. It is important to add this subsection. It does not, in any way, dilute the measures the Minister wishes to introduce, but if the person were found to be a refugee the carrier would be exempt.