Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister and her officials for attending the meeting today. I agree that it is very important that we are part of Eurodac. The way global politics, climate change and so forth are going, we will need to be prepared for an influx of people from different parts of the world who have not been here previously. It is important to be ready for that. Will this be helpful in dealing with people who are in direct provision? I understand that some of the people who are in direct provision have been there for a long time because there might be aspects of their past that could not be verified or whatever. Will this be helpful in dealing with some of those cases, particularly the long-term ones?