€300m wasted on illegal immigrants
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.
However, a pragmatic taxpayer would not endorse the squandering of the enormous sum of €297m on maintenance of the 90% who were bogus.
According to EU law, illegal immirants can be deported to the EU country they first entered. Ireland is under no legal obligation to allow them to remain here.
That being the case why does the Minister not deport the 90% and let their EU hosts take care of them?
It is ludicrous that the Government should continue to squander in excess of 300 million on bogus asylum seekers who, in the first place, should never have been allowed into this country.
300m would go a long way towards providing beds and critical medical attention for the hundreds of our own patients who end up on trolleys in hospital corridors.
As a taxpayer I am entitled to know why Minister McDowell does not deport each and every one of those bogus asylum seekers. Perhaps he would have the courtesy to enlighten me.
Edwin Cussen,
Wilton House,
Wilton Avenue,
Bishopstown,
Cork.
