John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his proposals for an Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill will include a marriage bar for certain foreign nationals who wish to marry each other or Irish and EU or EEA citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12987/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The Scheme for the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill which I published in September 2006 contains provisions regulating marriage of foreign nationals in the State. It is incorrect to represent this as a "marriage bar": it is a regulatory process.