Legalising migrants could net €185m

Regularising the position of up to 26,000 undocumented migrants would potentially generate €185m for the State over five years, according to a support agency.

Migrant Rights Centre Ireland said the establishment and administration of a scheme to bring the undocumented into the system would cost in the region of €3m.

In an address to the Oireachtas Justice Committee, the MRCI’s Justice for the Undocumented (JFU) campaign said the Government should do what it is calling for in relation to the undocumented Irish in the United States.