An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2021-01-20
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Johnny Guirke (SF), Meath West

I congratulate Joe Biden on being inaugurated today as the 46th President of the United States. As somebody who availed of a Morrison visa, I raise the issue of the thousands of undocumented Irish people in the United States. We have never had a better chance of getting these people some help, now that there is a Democratic House of Representatives, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President. The visas we availed of over the years I spent in America were Donnelly, Walsh and Morrison visas, all of which came from Democrats. I ask the Taoiseach to use as much political influence as he can with everybody possible to legalise the Irish in America. Some of those people have not been home for 25 years. Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters belonging to them have died and they have not been able to come home because of the fear of not getting back. These people have caused no crime. They have only helped the economy in the United States and I ask the Taoiseach to do all in his power to legalise them.

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Sitting date: 2021-01-20