Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Undocumented Migrants Living in Ireland: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

2:30 pm

Ms Edel McGinley:

There is a backlog in direct provision of ongoing cases. There are also people who may have received negative decisions. A person may start with an asylum claim, go to subsidiary protection and proceed to humanitarian leave to remain. If the humanitarian leave to remain application is unsuccessful, the case may be undocumented if the case began with seeking asylum. It may not be possible to return the person to the country from which they came. There is the principle of non-refoulement. There is a number of such countries. Some people on a deportation order may not be returned to the country of origin because of a number of different reasons and we consider such people to be undocumented as well. There is a crossover but we do not know its extent.

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