Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----not meant as encouragement to anyone but, as the Minister of State raised the issue, I wished to underline the fact that some people are ideologically blind to the distinction between asylum seeking and economic migration and they are entitled to that view. It is a legitimate view. They view the nation state and everything else as opposed to the great international order to which they aspire. I fully understand and intellectually respect their point of view, although I do not agree with it. Let us not just rush one way or another like the Gadarene swine-----