Apart from the refugees and indigent immigrants, who make up the classic cases in this area, can we seriously suggest that if a fugitive family from a neighbouring jurisdiction or America came to this country they would obtain the right to remain here because one of them is fortunate enough to parent or deliver a child in Ireland? There was more heat than light in the debate on the IBC issue. Consider the situation of an American academic who comes to lecture for a semester in Ireland and his wife happily has a child while they are here. The notion that the family ipso facto becomes entitled to remain in Ireland is untenable either as a moral or legal concept and I welcome the Supreme Court's clarification that the pre-existing law did not carry that implication.