Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 July 2003

Immigration Bill 2002 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages.

 

We now come to the additional amendments to the Refugee Act 1996, which I had signalled to this House when last I contributed on this Bill and which had been sketched out by my predecessor on Second Stage in this Chamber. I will address the more significant of these here but will be glad to offer further explanation on the details in my closing contribution, if Senators wish. The explanatory memorandum which my officials prepared in the context of the Committee Stage debate in the Lower House shows, in particular, the bulk of the amendments to the 1996 Act before us today set into a consolidated text of the Act itself. Copies are available this afternoon for the information of Senators.

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