Asylum seekers don’t have right of residence

YOUR correspondent Noel Cosgrove (Irish Examiner letters, December 30) says asylum seekers are not allowed the dignity of work here.

He should look at asylum policy throughout Western Europe.

While many of us marvel at the fact that asylum seekers manage to find their way to our shores from such far-flung places as Nigeria, The Congo, Ukraine, etc, without setting foot in a safe country before they reach our shores, the fact is that when they do arrive we seem to take a softer stance.