Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----but they also want to know that there is a functioning rules-based system as there is and on which the Minister, Deputy McEntee, has taken a number of measures to make more effective.

Regarding the data issue, I am very confident that the information that has been provided to the Government on processing times is exactly what people are seeing in the International Protection Office. The Department's firm assessment, based on the experience of staff and others working in the field, and on the material they are gathering at interviews, is that over 80% of applicants applying for protection have-----

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