Regina Doherty: “Fears around this issue in particular had been blown out of all proportion.”

There’s compassionate at the heart of it, adding that safeguards are woven throughout the legislation with human rights protections on a number of occasions.

I really don’t believe we should be supplying strategic materials to a country that is waging an illegal war against a European country that is costing the taxpayers in support of that country, to sustain itself and hopefully win the war…

Families with children and unaccompanied minors who do not have a legal right to be in the EU can be detained, but it will be for the shortest appropriate period of time.

We need a fair and firm system, that will protect those who need international protection, but will be firm with those who do not have a legal right to stay in the EU and will make sure to enforce the law.