€300m wasted on illegal immigrants

ON October 8, Justice Minister Michael McDowell told the Dáil Oireachtas Committee that 90% of asylum applications are bogus.

He stated that in 2002, €330 million of taxpayers’ money was spent dealing with asylum applications.

This implies that €33 million was spent on the 10% agreed to be genuine. Few reasonably minded people would begrudge expenditure of that sum to help unfortunate people.