On November 10th, the minister for justice, equality and law reform, Dermot Ahern TD (Fianna Fail) gave the following written answers for the question 285 of Charles Flanagan TD (Fine Gael) :
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that citizens of the Republic of Mauritius may visit 27 EU countries, including the UK and Ireland, without applying for and being granted a visa; if he will make a statement on the position regarding same and the proposals and changes to the current regime. [40505/09]
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Visa and pre-entry clearance systems are at the core of immigration controls and the inclusion of nationalities on lists of persons who require visas is usually the result of experience regarding the nationalities concerned. There are currently over 5,000 Mauritian nationals registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau, mostly as students. Taking the population of Mauritius as being approximately 1.25 million this means that one in every 250 Mauritian nationals is in Ireland.
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The written answer given by the minister for justice, equality and law reform was the same one given by the press office of the department of justice, equality and law reform on November 5th 2009.
The answer given by the minister for justice, equality and law reform is not satisfying. It failed to give the real reasons of his department to impose a new visa requirement and to justify why the Republic of Ireland will be the only country in the European Union to require a visa for citizens of Mauritius.
On http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id= ... -10.1138.0 , a poll is organized to vote on the answer of the question 285 : “Does this answer the above question ?â€
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