It is the lack of consistency from the Taoiseach that often bothers me most. He referenced the fact that the majority of applications by those seeking international protection are turned down, yet the measures announced today and yesterday in the media are specifically targeted at those who have succeeded. Family reunification, which is factored into the Geneva Convention and the UN refugee convention, was only available to fewer than 600 people who came here last year, either to be with their wife or husband or as children to reunite with a parent. These are the people the Government has targeted with this measure by imposing a three-year wait and a financial barrier. A child who comes here unaccompanied at 16 will not be able to be reunited with a parent because they will have timed out of the system under the measures the Government has announced under its family reunification scheme. There is no consistency. This is not fair. It is a form of performative cruelty.

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I am in the Dáil for Questions on Policy or Legislation. Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

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Answer the question.

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It is madness.

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