Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin

10:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

What the Deputy may be referring to is legislation that has been a long time in the making, the international protection Bill, which will tidy up the not fit for purpose legislation we currently have in place, which owes its origin to the Refugee Act 1966, which in turn is a time-consuming sequential, not fit for purpose piece of legislation. The new international protection Bill will require people to put all their details on the table pretty much immediately when they make their applications. One of the effects of the current system we are operating is that there are possibly up to five or six, or maybe more in some circumstances, opportunities for people to seek to a judicial review of decisions which have been taken in the system and that has given rise to very serious delays.

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