Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

I move:

That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion, provided by Article 3 of the Fourth Protocol set out in the Treaty of Amsterdam, to notify the President of the Council that it wishes to take part in the adoption and application of the following proposed measure:

a proposal for a Council Decision establishing the European fund for the integration of third-country nationals for the period 2007-2013 as part of the general programme 'Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows',

a copy of which proposed measure was laid before Seanad Éireann on 3 June 2005.