Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 July 2003

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

 

Senator Terry appears to have misunderstood the effect of amendment No. 7 which merely restates, with some enhancements, the present law regarding the return of people who have been refused leave to land and are deemed to have been so refused. She might have acknowledged that the new provision rules out the possibility under present law of detaining under 18s. Immigration officers, mainly members of the Garda Síochána, have always had these powers and the new provisions extend them to all gardaí, not the other way around, as she seemed to suggest.

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