Noel O'Flynn
Question:373 Mr. O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the family problems caused for essential foreign workers coming here from countries for which Ireland requires a visa by the legislative bar on their spouses and children applying for a visa until the working member of the family has been resident here for at least three months and the subsequent delays in issuing such visas; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that high technology enterprises are finding this a bar to recruitment and retention of essential workers; and if he will bring forward an urgent reform of the relevant law. [29664/00]