Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion

12:05 pm

Ms Josephine Bakaabatsile:

I wish to say something on that issue and will refer to my own case. During the time my application was being processed, I was assigned what they said was a private solicitor. I did not understand how they could be a private solicitor. I later sent a letter from the same solicitor to a friend and she told me she did not have qualifications under the UNHCR to deal with asylum cases. That was for the three years of the process. Somehow the allocations are not clearer because this was probably just somebody who had just finished school and she had not done some training on that particular issue.

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