In an affidavit, she said she was so desperate she evaded deportation and resorted to prostitution for a time to fund his €140 monthly medication costs. The mother and child were accommodated by the State from 2014 and provided with a medical card under which the child’s treatment is funded. This child’s situation is such he should be permitted to remain, he said. Lawyers in the High Court’s weekly asylum list colloquially refer to the alleged scheme as “the scheme that doesn’t exist”, counsel added. There is a statutory discretion to be exercised on a case by case basis having regard to the facts, she argued.

Source: The Irish Times January 22, 2018 18:56 UTC