Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Becker for expanding on some of the points she raised earlier. It is extraordinary that victims of trafficking who are in the asylum process have fewer rights than alleged victims of trafficking who are not in the asylum process. Ms Becker set out clearly the reasons this is currently the case. Would this anomaly be best fixed by applying the administrative immigration arrangements to victims of trafficking who are in the asylum process? Is that a straightforward approach that would enable such persons to be issued with temporary resident permits once they had been identified as trafficking victims? Is that the best way to resolve the problem? It is not clear if this is simply an administrative anomaly or if there is a policy reason behind it. Are the witnesses aware of the reason the system developed in this manner? From what Ms Becker said, it appears to have developed somewhat inadvertently, although I am not sure if that is the case.