What would happen at the check-in desk at Orly Airport or Amsterdam Airport where someone was standing at the head of a queue and was asked for a ticket and passport and a Nigerian passport was produced but there was no Irish visa? The Aer Lingus, Air France or Ryanair employee would say the person did not have documents for Ireland and could not be carried on the airline. The passenger would say he or she intended claiming refugee status there and the carrier would tell the person he or she could get on the aeroplane because with this section the carrier would not be committing an offence under Irish law. It would mean that anyone could pass through any checkpoint by asserting that they intended coming to Ireland to claim asylum. Only fools would queue with genuine documentation if by repetition of the verbal formula "I am on my way to Ireland to claim asylum" one could walk up the gangway on to the aeroplane or boat. That effectively is what I am being asked to do. If carriers had to satisfy themselves at the airport that the person was liable to be persecuted and carry out a mini inquiry at the harbour wall in Cherbourg or in the middle of the airport in Paris to find out if this was true, we would be turning check-in employees at ticket counters into immigration officers for the Irish State.