The programme for Government states:

Long durations in direct provision are acknowledged to have a negative impact on family life. [This Government is] committed to reforming the direct provision system, with particular focus on families and children.

Is the Tánaiste committed to supporting children who have become victims of such detention? Does he accept that a 14 year old who has spent 12 those years in Ireland under the asylum system is a de facto Irish resident? Will he agree the deportation of an entire family of two teenage brothers and their widowed mother, who are integrated into Irish society, back to the legal ownership of the mother's brother-in-law will have a negative impact on family life? Nonso and Victor Muojeke and their mother are one such family. Is the Tánaiste committed to stopping on humanitarian grounds the deportation from Offaly of the Muojeke family?

As the case to which the Deputy refers is currently before the courts, I would be most reluctant to make any comment to the House on it. I am familiar with the situation of the case but it would be inappropriate of me to make a statement in the House at this point.