Rome, January 12 - Justice Minister Andrea Orlando said Tuesday that illegal immigration must be decriminalised but only as part of a comprehensive reform of the regulations regarding asylum seekers. Silvio Berlusconi's third government made entering Italy illegally a crime in 2009, but the law has been blamed for clogging up the legal system as Italy deals with an increasingly large waves of arrivals from North Africa. On Monday Premier Matteo Renzi said the issue would not be addressed in the next cabinet meeting as people at the moment feel unsafe. "It must be done," Orlando told La 7 television when asked about decriminalising illegal immigration. "With the interior ministry we are considering a comprehensive intervention that regards repatriations, the time scales for recognising refugee status - the abolition of the crime can be part of that package. "The crime of illegal immigration has created a mechanism that frequently hampers the repatriation process".