Asylum seekers have basic rights

I WISH to reply to the letter from Mr Ted Neville (Irish Examiner, Jan 7).

Asylum seekers have basic rights

He claims that a special maternity unit is to be provided in Co Dublin for asylum seekers "lured by our daft right to automatic citizenship by place of birth."

I know a case of a Nigerian man with an Irish wife and their Irish-born child who has been waiting more than two years so that he can get his residency in Cork. I wrote to the Department of Justice several times so that this gentleman can get a work permit

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