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:
I will come back to that. If an applicant is refused in the first instance and then makes an appeal, that decision is ordinarily made in about eight months. The difficulty in our current system is with the process beyond that, where the applicant then makes an application under what is known as subsidiary protection and that, effectively, starts the whole process all over again, and when that process is completed, the applicant can then seek to make an application for leave to remain in the country.
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