Sir, - Do not the recent utterances by the Minister for Justice regarding the asylum-seeker issue not make a few things even more obvious to the people of Ireland?
The need to appoint at least a junior minister to head an immigration department and oversee a credible and just immigration policy;
the double standards of a society that quite rightly invites Philipino nurses to work in its hospitals and yet proposes to blanket deport people it has come to describe as "economic migrants";
the common sense, logic and compassion that exists in the very welcome proposal for regularisation as outlined by the Irish Catholic bishops and so flatly rejected by the Minister.
In short, has the Ireland of the Welcomes become a very warm welcome for some, and a Welcome to Limbo for others? - Yours, etc.,
Fr John Carroll, St Aidan's Cathedral, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford.