Mr. Noel Waters:

Literally, at every decision point in the system, as it currently stands, people are entitled to go before the High Court. They do that on a regular basis and that is their entitlement. That is the law. A new Bill will remove that aspect. There will be two points of decision in the system, which will remove that aspect immediately. That Bill is a long time in the making. It was part of a wider piece of legislation, which was contemplated for reform of the entire immigration area, and the Minister, upon taking office in May of last year, decided to separate out the protection aspect of it. That has been done, and the publication of that is imminent. I anticipate that the Government will be making a decision on it very shortly. The intention is that it will be published, brought before the Oireachtas and, ideally and hopefully, the Minister - who is on record as having said this - would wish it to be enacted before the end of this session.