Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 July 2003

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

 

We have to keep pace with international developments. Whereas I would love to spend many months considering every single section and paragraph of this Bill, and stand here in this House, if time and Senators' patience permitted, on this occasion, bearing in mind the requirements of the legislative calendar, if we were not to attempt to deal with these issues now, it would simply not be possible to persuade the Members of either House to give me sufficient time to re-address the issue with separate proceedings and separate Bills in the foreseeable future. It would be at least 18 months, probably, before I could get the train to leave the station and go to the other end of the line with further legislative changes.

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