Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 July 2003

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

 

The views of various organisations have been mentioned. I know and respect those organisations. I have friends within them. I believe I speak for the vast majority of the Irish public, supporters of all political parties, when I say there is a very strong strand of public opinion that we need to do something to control the flow of illegal immigration. We are doing this. Second, even the human rights organisations agree that we should do something that would enable us to dispose quickly of manifestly unfounded applications and deal properly with those who have a genuine case to be considered refugees within the terms of the Geneva Convention.

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