Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I could not possibly say to anyone to drop a judicial review application. It is entirely a decision for the person involved. However, one of the main recommendations in the McMahon report relates to people who have been here more than five years. Issues in respect of security or other information that emerges during the assessment are obviously a separate matter. However, the implementation of that recommendation has been progressed. We hear about people who have been here for more than five years who are not in direct provision, but they have to make contact. They have to make themselves available. It can be difficult to find some of these people. They are not necessarily in contact and have left the country in many instances.

In terms of the main recommendation in the McMahon report, huge resources have been invested in examining and dealing with those cases. As stated, leave to remain has been granted in the vast majority of them, which has been for the obvious reason that people have been here for such a period of time. It is important to say that. There is not an automatic entitlement but there has been a serious focus on those people for obvious humanitarian reasons. People should not have to wait that long, which is why I introduced the International Protection Act. The Senator's question on that-----