Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I also extend my sympathy to the families of Martin Richard, aged eight years, and Ms Krystle Campbell, aged 29, both of whom died in the Boston bombings, and to all those who were injured and maimed in that terrorist attack.

I also ask the Leader to organise a debate on the undocumented Irish, an issue about which we spoke previously. Yesterday the US Senate published an 884 page immigration Bill which was brought before President Obama who is enthusiastic to have it passed. As the Senate will pass the Bill in the space of eight weeks, I hope we will be able to organise our own debate on the topic because the 50,000 undocumented Irish want us to ensure their pathway to legalisation in the United States is accommodated within the 884 pages of the Bill. Once it has passed through the Senate, it will go to the House of Representatives where some Republicans are promising to slow it down, to put it mildly. The 11 million people who are undocumented in the United States require the assistance of their home countries to ensure their position will be legalised. Therefore, I ask the Leader to organise a debate in the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade as soon as possible to ensure Irish people in the United States who find themselves living in the shadows will be looked after by us at home.