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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Ms Egan for her presentation. She referred to the salary scales there. Is she saying there is potential flexibility to start on a different point of the same scale or are two different scales used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: They are the same scales but there is flexibility in respect of the point of the scale on which person starts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Thinking of access to justice being a fundamental human right, if the body responsible for prosecution already has favourable measurements in being able to keep up morale among its workforce and with pay, that creates an inequality compared with the body which is there to potentially advocate on behalf of people who have to defend themselves. The inequality in terms of being fair and just is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is the same scale. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank everyone for their presentations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Much of it speaks to the concerns I have with the pact. When we think of international protection and asylum we should be thinking of enhancing people's rights. The pact is a punitive measure. It is not really about international protection. It is actually about detention. The moment we begin to speak about detention of any group, especially under the conditions that are laid out in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Can we get a comment also on the issue of the safe third country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: No, I will go ahead now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: This question is for either Mr O'Neill or Ms Hennessy. It relates to the 1951 convention in the context of non-refoulement and the EU pact. The information provided by the witnesses does not go into how the pact interplays with previous conventions in the context of eroding some of the protections and core principles within those conventions. Will the witnesses comment on what assessment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: What about member states being able to apply to the Commission to have a crisis declared? There is an obvious opt-out in the context of particular laws. I am particularly interested in member states being able to declare a crisis and ignore what is in previous conventions. Is Mr. O'Neill worried about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Could we briefly speak about surveillance please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I would like to hear from Ms Hurley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I want to come in on the connection piece and tie it in to the mass data piece. Can the mass data piece be used to uphold the connection piece? There may be large families that have to flee from places and set up in different countries. If there is a mass database that identifies a person as having a family connection in the UK or France could that be used to add to the criteria, rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Not all the criteria, however, have to be met. It could be that the person has transited through somewhere and has a family member who has been identified only through fingerprinting, and those two factors combined could be enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes, but if that is matched with data that has been collected through fingerprinting to say that person has a family member in that country, that would also be seen as a connection. That could be used as enough to send somebody to a safe third country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: She has got through border patrol.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: May I add something so that it makes its way into the letter, which we probably have not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to put it on the record. Obviously, we do not want to be adding points later that are not on the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: No, I do not mean that. I want to do it so that I can refer back to it when we are doing that work,-----