I support the calls made today for a debate with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Charles Flanagan, on the undocumented Irish in the United States. There are an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish people living and working in the United States. These people who come from every corner of this country have had their hopes raised and dashed time and again in recent years, including by the Kennedy-McCain Bill. We need to make a renewed effort to work with our friends in Congress and the United States Senate to ensure meaningful immigration reform in the United States. We are speaking in this regard about people who consider the USA their home. They want a pathway to legalisation and to be able to pay their taxes, obtain health insurance and the certainty of knowing that when something goes wrong they can return home without the fear of not being able to return to the USA. They also want to be able to go about their daily lives in the United States without living in dread of being deported. I dealt with a constituent who had been deported from the United States three years ago. He had been living in the United States for a number of years and employed 12 and 13 people in a very successful business which he had set up there, but despite this, he was deported. This is an issue on which we in this country can easily take our eye off the ball. For the people living here who have loved ones abroad illegally in the United States, this is a constant worry. I would like to hear from the Minister what progress he made on this issue during his recent trip to the United States and about the Government's plans and those of the diplomatic corps in the United States for engagement with Members of Congress and the Senate.

Somebody's telephone is causing interference.

I do not have a mobile phone with me. I do not bring mine into the House and advise other Members also not do so.

I do not bring my mobile phone into the Seanad Chamber and have never done so.

The Leader to continue, without interruption, please.