Dublin City Council Pass Motion to Support Regularisation of Undocumented Migrants

6 December 2011

Dublin City Council unanimously passed a motion on Monday 6th December to support the introduction for an Earned Regularisation scheme for undocumented migrants in Ireland.

The motion introduced by Councillor Rebecca Moynihan drew cross part support and deemed to practical and reasonable solution.

Councillors acknowledged the plight of undocumented migrants, in particular children and the need to uphold human rights in Ireland and to remember the undocumented Irish in other parts of the world.

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Text of the motion passed by Dublin City Council: 

This Council supports the undocumented Irish campaign in the US to introduce an earned regularisation scheme. This Council also notes with concern the high numbers of undocumented families and children living in Ireland without rights and under tremendous stress and fear. This Council supports the introduction of an earned regularisation scheme in Ireland, based on criteria set down by the Department of Justice, so that undocumented migrants living in Ireland can participate fully in the social, political and economic affairs of the country. This Council asks that the Minister for Justice be written to upon the passing of this motion to inform him of Dublin City Council's support for an earned regularisation scheme.